Empty platitudes aren't any sort of a coherent foreign policy.We are not an Island...this isn't the 1700's...like it or not we are connected to the free world economically....guess what?...we have computers and I phones too!....I disagree with the 'supplying the free world' shyte. Ensure our lights stay one and the traffic moves. Let the slight pinch we will feel then spur some innovation..and let tech solve the problem of energy. The rest of the world..they can ride with us..or not..I don't care.Yes..yes we do. It appears that we are slow to learn this...Russia knows this..and has changed the battlefield. These proxy fights need to stop..let the Middle East figure it out..or not. I see Saudi Arabia and Israel in the same light. Theocracies struggling to pit the big guys against their enemies.
Then we need energy independence for us and the free world...supplied by us...but we won't get there with windmills....Drill Baby Drill.....