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Henry Hyde has proposed a Marshall Plan for the Middle East. Remember, the original Marshall Plan only occurred after the total defeat and occupation of Nazi Germany. So let’s put the Rand study and Hyde’s bill in perspective.

Iraq is soon going to be toast.
Iran is about to fall from the weight of the mullahs' corruption and repression.
Several members of the House of Saud, far too close to al-Quaeda, have died mysteriously, no doubt dispatched to meet the 72 virgins by American intelligence.
Young Bashar Assad in Syria understands which way the wind is blowing and has decided to cooperate with us and provide us with intelligence.

My conclusion is that the American conquest and occupation of the oil-bearing lands of the Middle East -- the hostile takeover of OPEC -- is on schedule. Maps will be redrawn as nations are merged or split apart by American command. The former Iraq will eventually end up as the Palestinian homeland.

Once this is done, there is only one way to prevent decades of terrorism aimed at us -- drag the Arab world kicking and screaming into the 21st Century. It means jump-starting their economies the way we did with West Germany in the early Fifties. Once that happens and a technocratic middle class is created, a path is set for the absorption of Western culture, and the Arabs will be assimilated.

Rand put together a 35 year plan much like this for the shah in 1954. The shah’s goal was to follow the path of West Germany. By 1989, had he lived, his goal was to abdicate and turn Iran over to his son as a constitutional monarchy on the British model. By then, he and Rand felt, there would be a technocratic middle class that could support self-rule. Of course, he miscalculated and gave us Khomenei.

Taking the oil fields is inevitable because we can’t allow the oil weapon to be wielded by an enemy. Once here was a Soviet Union to prevent us from making such a power play. Now there is no one.

During the first and second oil shocks in the Seventies, the Arab leaders talked about using that windfall to enhance the wealth and welfare of their peoples. Instead, they bought arms to defend themselves from each other and wasted the rest of it on liquor and whores.

The eventual goal is to take the oil fields and handle the distribution of the oil money the way it should have been done in the first place. We’ll try to win hearts and minds by winning wallets first. The goal is to have the occupied Arabs view us the way the Germans and Japanese did by the Fifties.

I would assume that once we merge Saudi Arabia into our new secular Arab “democracy” – under American and Israeli supervision – we will be helping extremist mullahs and religious radicals meet the 72 virgins, in a pattern reminiscent of de-Nazification.

Yes, the conquest of Saudi Arabia is inevitable. If we don't, the festering sore of Wahhabism will continue to threaten us.