Have you ever thought for a moment why we as a country support terror on the one hand while waging The Global War on Terror on the other?  Yes, you read me correctly.  It is a plain fact that the United States supports terror.  Similarly, the United States buys more illegal drugs than most nations combined while simultaneousy waging a decades long War on Drugs.  The logic is simple:  your dollars and mine pay for oil and those dollars are used by the corrupt regimes that produce most of the worlds oil to prop up anti-American and anti-western terrorists all over the world.  Furthermore, our government gives our tax money to corrupt governments of the middle east in a futile attempt to buy loyalty.  Those same nations turn out an ever increasing supply of fresh new terrorists yearning to find martyrdom at the expense of the west.  Its truly astonishing when you think about the dysfunction of it all.

Are you tired of the nebulous phrase "Global War on Terror"?  We aren't fighting terror, we're fighting Muslim terrorists.  Muslim terrorists primarily from the middle east.  A more apt description of this war is the "Global War on Middle Eastern Muslim Extremists", but I'm sure the PC crowd in Washington scratched that one off the board in their focus groups shortly after 9/11.

Not being one to sit around and ask questions all day in a worthless attempt to rationalize it all away, I've come to the conclusion that the only solution to this so called "war on terror" is to take away the one thing the terrorists must have in order to wage an effective war and that is our money.   And this is where Mr. Bush must lead.  Mr. Bush must insist that this nation reduce its dependency on oil by 50% by the year 2015. 

In the early 60's JFK announced to this nation that we would have a man on the moon by the end of the decade.  It happened.  His vision and ambition forced this nation to react and achieve.  It is my opinion that if Mr Bush announced an emergency national address tomorrow night then went on TV and told the world that this nation's mandate and vision was to reduce oil dependency by 50% by the year 2015 and that our government was earmarking 200 billion dollars in research grants to find legitimate alternative fuel sources effective immediately and made a strong case that this was the key to winning the GWOT, most Americans would be estatic.  Heck, I don't think most Americans would mind paying a few extra bucks a month for fuel of some sort in the year 2015 as long as it meant our dollars weren't going to Saudi Arabia to pay for bloody terrorist supporting oil. 

Can you imagine the fear in the hearts and minds of the corrupt middle eastern regimes upon realization that their sugardaddy, the United States of America, was not going to keep sending them checks in the future?  I would love to be at the next OPEC meeting after our national decree.  They say all war is economic at its heart, and surely this is true today.