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the U.S. must overcome its Cold War-era obsession with stability and open itself to the possibilities of creative instability in a world that still has far too many dictators and corrupt, oppressive regimes

Whether by strategic design or not, this would appear to be happening. Our actions around the world are generating splits and tensions within the islamic world. Creatively capitalizing on these tensions to the betterment of the all involved is another, very complicated matter.

[TigerLikesRooster]

Finally, we must be prepared to seize the Saudi oil fields and administer them for the greater good. Imagine if, instead of funding corruption and intolerance, those oil revenues built clinics, secular schools and sewage systems throughout the Middle East.

Seizing Saudi oil fields ? This was a topic discussed here. But I never thought that a major paper like WSJ would print an article about it even if Dubya admin. actually plan to do it. This is a bold-faced threat through a media channel that, if Saudi does not shape up, America will destroy Saudi Kingdom. I think that King Hussein of Jordan died too early. He should have lived to see the turn of events in Mid-East which could bring his tribe back to Mecca.