I believe RP is referring to the ongoing and seemingly perpetual enmity against us for our interventionism. In another age, it would have been called colonialism. We are basically in an arms race with ourselves. We will be propping up Iraq and Afghanistan for generations and we're broke. Wouldn't it be nice to take the hit on cost of petroleum products manuafactured and drilled here and tell those petty little theocoracies to pound sand? Why can't we do a Manhattan Project style national R&D focus on alternatives to petroleum and more efficient batteries? Instead, we have troops in one hundred seventy countries and Obama has an income tax credit for hybrid vehicles. Ever wonder what it would be like to drastically scale back the fed gov't tentacles in your everyday life? Ever ponder a different tax system? We used 16 million from our Chinese credit card for new IRS agents.
Also, my brother and both served. Marine Corps infantry.