There is one thing that I haven't heard mentioned by anyone: 1. most terrorism is from the middle east, right? 2. most oil is from the middle east, right? well then, just make the US energy independent. switch the US to nuclear, solar, wind, etc. and the middle east will collapse without our business. everyone over there hates the middle east and want us dead, but what they don't get is what without us they would be nothing, their entire economy depends on large part on US oil money.