It sounds like a very reasonable plan to me.
On the advice of Condi Rice, Reagan and the Saudis brought oil to about $12/barrel and broke the Soviet Union. SDI helped, but their only source of hard currency was oil.
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“It sounds like a very reasonable plan to me.”
Really? That plan is a double-edged sword. What do you think cheap oil prices will do to our domestic oil companies? The repeated boom-to-bust cycles have hurt domestic oil production and contributed to our failure to achieve energy independence.