You would not render the middle east irrelevant by erasing the dependence on crude oil.
I personally think you could in fact be doing the middle east the biggest favour if you could make the global oil price drop to zero. At least to the people, if not the current rulers.
That's not what maintaining Hegemony means. Hegemony means Kicking other people around.
Did you mean something else, like Energy Independence?
Or perhaps Being a world leader in science and technology?
And that's not the thrust of what you were referring to in your original post. You were talking about the INS screening people who look like me and not letting us into America.
Why that's a bad idea is a whole different can of worms, but basically Nazism is not an efficient security policy.
You have to put in place a whole lot of Nazism to get small gains in security.
I personally think you could in fact be doing the middle east the biggest favour if you could make the global oil price drop to zero. At least to the people, if not the current rulers.
That's not what maintaining Hegemony means. Hegemony means Kicking other people around.
Did you mean something else, like Energy Independence? Or perhaps Being a world leader in science and technology?
And that's not the thrust of what you were referring to in your original post. You were talking about the INS screening people who look like me and not letting us into America.
Why that's a bad idea is a whole different can of worms, but basically Nazism is not an efficient security policy.
You have to put in place a whole lot of Nazism to get small gains in security.