A NEW STRATEGY ON THE WAR AGAINST TERRORISM

A NEW STRATEGY ON THE WAR AGAINST TERRORISM

The long term strategy is to stop being dependent on oil. We should spend the money NOW to convert to the Hydrogen Economy (read Jeremy Rifkin’s The Hydrogen Economy). In addition to neutralizing our focus on the Mid-east we would move forward on eliminating Global warming.

My short term thinking is based on some history and thinking about the Sunni versus Shiite dynamic. Prior to our invasion of Iraq there was somewhat of a détente between Iraq and Iran. After the war, Iran and the Shiite majority of Iraq have joined forces. Iran has been imbolded and thus we feel even more insecure then we were when Sadaam was in charge of Iraq. I think we should leave Iraq as soon as possible and let the Shiites and the Sunnis slug it out. It is their fight not ours. Additionally, this would probably make Israel less vulnerable since the Shiites and the Sunnis would be focusing on each other instead of Israel.

We should take our Iraqi troops and put all of them in Afghanistan and finish the job we started there. We seem to have the Afghans behind us, but the Taliban is reemerging. We need to stop that movement in its tracks.