haha you don't seem to understand that high oil prices are not a function of anything that's going on here or in the middle east. Perhaps you should take a basic economics course and study supply and demand. In fact, if the liberal tundra huggers would let us drill in the arctic we wouldn't have such a shortage. Also, your comment about new jobs being low wage jobs in service sectors is completely false as there are a ton of high tech and construction jobs out here in the southwest for example. Finally, whether you like it or not, the foreign policy that is in place is exactly what we need right now - someone who's going to kick ass and not have some "global test" before we do what's in our best interests. Your boy Kerry is so befuddled that he's starting to flip flop in the same sentence. I heard a quote from him this morning where he said he wasn't sure what he'll do with Iraq if he's elected because he isn't sure if he's going to inherit "a Lebanon"; but he has a plan. ROFLMAO!