Seize them!

Oh, my.

Of course, if we seized the Saudi and Iranian oil fields and ran the pumps full speed, oil prices would plummet, dictators would be broke, and poor nations would benefit from cheap energy. But we'd be called imperialist oppressors, then.

Yeah, that strategy is succeeding brilliantly in Iraq.

Iraq's output has yet to recover to its levels of before the U.S. invasion due to attacks, political wrangling, lack of funds and mismanagement. The oil ministry inspector general said last week that insurgents had succeeded in crippling Iraq's energy industry and the government had ignored calls for help in the battle against corruption and smuggling.

"It has been going on for two or three years now without stopping. Actually it (the rebel campaign) has increased. They have always succeeded in attacking very sensitive sites," Ali al-Alaak told Reuters in an interview. In December, exports fell to 1.08 million bpd, the lowest since the resumption of shipments after 2003.

Good plan, Putz.

Update:

Despite being in a tremendous rhetorical hole, Putz added later:

...ponder the fact that an arrangement that subsidizes fatcat dictators is sanctioned -- and even defended -- by people on the left, while even the idea of doing anything about it is condemned. That's not about practicalities, but philosophies.

Ahhhh, I see---it's "the left", all along, that has been defending the Saudis. Mmm-hmm.