Plum Crazy

But why stop there? We could take over the entire Middle East or at least those countries we don't like. Invade Syria, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, heck even go into northern Africa and take over Sudan. The whole operation could be over in a matter of months. These regimes are paltry little things that would pose insignificant resistance.

Then imagine the possibilities. We get rid of all these nasty regimes that sponsor terrorism, that want to see Israel go the way of the Edsel, that control most of the world's oil. We could build our own little empire, lay a foundation for Democracy to spread like wildfire, grab the oil for ourselves.

Expensive you say? We don't have the military to do it? Pish. With the oil that we'd control, we'd have all the money we need to fund the operation and the occupation. We could ramp up the military by boosting the pay and luring more people to sign up for Uncle Sam. We could go into the ghettos of the U.S. and offer the poor folk there economic salvation if they join up. Field an army large enough to get the job done. Contract with the warlords in Afghanistan or mercenaries throughout the world if necessary.

I know that it would be striking a bargain with the devil and would draw worldwide condemnation. But it'd be worth it, and the rest of the world doesn't like us anyway. Let's take advantage of that and Bush's low approval ratings. The country hates him? Let them hate him a little more. He's out of office in a few more years anyway. He can chance it. Besides, with this whole domestic spying program, he's acting like a dictator anyway. Why not take it one step further?

All in all, seems like a win-win situation to me. The sooner we start the sooner we succeed.