If we did what I proposed on the oil ... particularly exploiting our own, developing the alternatives and taing k the oil from those nations who attack us or abett and harbor those who do ... you would see western Europe following suite and you would see the Japanese and other Asian powers looking to us and elsewhere themselves.
I believe the ROW can stiff the Arabs ... and should. Why if we alone did it, those Arab nations would get the picture and come to us and others on bended knee. We then dictate the terms to them ... which include ridding them of their fundemantal/radical propblem. The choice for them at that point is simple ... either do so or :
1) Go Bankrupt>
2) Be defeated if you side with your radical/fundamental influences and attack us in any way or abett anyone who deos.
Ah yes, but from whom are the darling "NGO's" getting their spending money?
We have congressional investigations into the practices of Publisher's Clearing House; into the practices of cigarrette manufacuturers; into the sexual habit of whales and African women. But somehow we never quite get around to really following the money.
Odd, isn't it, for this Great Bastion of Capitalist Freedom?