Nay.
I have a better idea...one our fearless, flawless and wise "leaders" have notoriously failed at for the last 50 years;
The only way we'll be safe from Middle Eastern lunatics and Islamic fundamentalist brutality is to completely and irrevocably marginalize them...like they were before anyone found oil there.
How? We must have energy independence. Period. As long as somebody else has a grip on the flow of basic survival needs (like energy), we dance to that somebody's tune. Imagine being in a truly bloody feud with your next door neighbor, but all your electricity flows through his meter, and you have to pay him to get it. How strong is your negotiating position?
Were we to actually focus on a REAL national security threat (foreign energy dependence), we'd make a massive national effort and investment, develop an implementation plan and make it happen. It would be a massive project, but it is inescapably necessary.
Afterwards, we could simply tell the sandstorm loonys to kiss off and have a great time butchering each other while civilized people sit back and watch them implode. Without oil revenue, they are nothing. (Of course, as someone else pointed out, we'd be blamed for turning our backs on the same people who spent decades trying to kill us all.)
If we don't need their oil, we don't need them.
I know isolationism has not been successful in the past, but these days I like the sound of it, anyway. Speaking as one who must struggle constantly to stay afloat, I'd like to see us take care of our own first and quit sending billions overseas while Americans suffer inflated taxes to pay for it.
