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Well, it's definitely good for an emotional response. If only the world worked as simply as it implies.

1) 'The US,UK ,CANADA and AUSTRALIA will apologize to the world for our 'interference' in their affairs, past & present. You know, Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Tojo, Noriega, Milosevic, Hussein, and the rest of those 'good 'ole' boys', we will never 'interfere' again.

I read this as complaining about being unappreciated, and withdrawing in a snit. Sorry, but others will complain about any course we take. We have to continue to do the right things regardless. Moral courage.

2) We will withdraw our troops from all over the world, starting with Germany , South Korea , the Middle East , and the Philippines . They don't want us there. We would station troops at our borders. No one allowed sneaking through holes in the fence.

Some do want us there, some don't. But we're primarily there for our own strategic interests.

3) All illegal aliens have 90 days to get their affairs together and leave We'll give them a free trip home. After 90 days the remainder will be gathered up and deported immediately, regardless of whom or where they are from. They're illegal!!! France will welcome them.

Expensive and difficult (how do you find all the illegal aliens? They don't exactly register their locations). Other than that, I can support this idea.

4) All future visitors will be thoroughly checked and limited to 90 days unless given a special permit!!!! No one from a terrorist nation will be allowed in. If you don't like it there, change it yourself and don't hide here. Asylum would never be available to anyone. We don't need any more cab drivers or 7-11 cashiers.

I'm not against legal immigration or asylum. And if we expel all the illegal immigrants, we may well find that we do need cab drivers, 7-11 cashiers, farm laborers, janitors, maids, kitchen staff, and many other types of workers.

5) No foreign 'students' over age 21. The older ones are the bombers. If they don't attend classes, they get a 'D' and it's back home baby.

Prepare all universities for major loss. Not too many people, American or otherwise, with a bachelor's degree in hand and ready to finish graduate work by age 21. My MBA graduate wife will be surprised to learn she is / was a bomber. Millions of foreign national graduate students, how many bombers and bombs?

Now, there are "schools" that keep students on their rolls and sign on the USCIS paperwork as long as they get paid every semester, even if the "students" are in another state and never set foot on campus. Crack down on that, absolutely.

6) The US,UK ,CANADA and AUSTRALIA will make a strong effort to become self-sufficient energy wise. This will include developing nonpolluting sources of energy but will require a temporary drilling of oil in the Alaskan wilderness. The caribou will have to cope for a while

I'm fine with this. We should also go offshore, including that Florida / Cuba field before the Chinese finish draining it.

7) Offer Saudi Arabia and other oil producing countries $10 a barrel for their oil. If they don't like it, we go someplace else. They can go somewhere else to sell their production. (About a week of the wells filling up the storage sites would be enough.)

If they don't like it, we go someplace else? Where?

They can go somewhere else to sell their production? They already do - Asian demand in particular is skyrocketing. (Chinese and Indian growth mostly, plus Thai, Indonesian, and Vietnamese on a lesser scale.)

High stakes game of chicken. It would be fantastic if it worked. Not so good if it failed.

8) If there is a famine or other natural catastrophe in the world, we will not 'interfere.' They can pray to Allah or whomever, for seeds, rain, cement or whatever they need. Besides most of what we give them is stolen or given to the army. The people who need it most get very little, if anything.

Maybe. Or maybe we should insist on delivering it directly ourselves, so the shipments don't get redirected or rebadged. Helping catastrophe victems, done correctly, can satisfy many ethics (Christian charity, anyone?), and build goodwill with the populace (to be leveraged later against their government, for our own interests).

9) Ship the UN Headquarters to an isolated island someplace. We don't need the spies and fair weather friends here. Besides, the building would make a good homeless shelter or lockup for illegal aliens.

Who's to say we don't have them here to spy on them?

10) All Americans must go to charm and beauty school. That way, no one can call us 'Ugly Americans' any longer. The Language we speak is ENGLISH..learn it...or LEAVE...Now, isn't that a winner of a plan?

Forget charm and beauty school. Be ourselves. (Back to "do the right thing regardless of opinion" again.) And try actually reading "The Ugly American" - the ugly one was the best one.

I could go for having English as the national language.

'The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying 'Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses.' She's got a baseball bat and she's yelling, 'you want a piece of me?' '

Which part of America made this such a great place, again? An awful lot of patriotic, hard-working, self-reliant Americans wouldn't be here under those rules. Including all those Lodge Act warriors. But I guess we didn't need them, right?