You're truly hopeless. Think, for instance, if instead of blowing 377 billion dollars and countless lives, and crippling our military by invading Iraq, that the US had spent an equivalent amount on developing an alternate energy scenario and securing our ports and such. (As an instance--nuclear power plants cost about 8 billion a piece. You can crack hydrogen by the tankerload with those babies) We would have increasing, if not absolute independence from these Christian-jailing, terror-abetting Saudis and their like. We would still have a functional military, as they would not be bogged down in that, yes, quagmire. The process of building a viable and sustainable energy supply would have had the simultaneous boon of employing countless workers--pipefitters, glaziers, welders, electricians, scientists, administrators, etc... This and other related proposals are already laid out by the Apollo Alliance. Check them out. You think Bush is a tough guy? He's not a tough guy. He's a drugstore cowboy. Wake up, man. Wake up.