[CROSSHIGHWAYMAN]

It's troubling that more and more of the world's oil supplies are coming under the control of nut cases.

You hit the nail on the head.

Perhaps environmental wackos and their slaves in the Democrat Party might heed your fears?

[Migraine]

gave Islamic societies a youthful energy that contrasted markedly with the slothful senescence of Europe

...now that's a mouthful, and a pretty decent turn of a phrase!

And here's another nail on the head, and one in the coffin:
Condoleezza is right about diplomacy, as long as it contains the threat of nuking one holy city after another -- Qom, to scare the hell out of the Shia's, then Medina, leaving Mecca as a carrot to make the Muzzies of all stripes behave for another century or so. That's diplomacy that would work, as opposed to the typical appeasement that MOST idiots call diplomacy.