U.S., Future Tense

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Security: Buried in last week's news, the CIA director warned that the next president's top national security problem is the Axis of Oil...

In an interview with Fox News Friday, the CIA's Hayden said that, along with North Korea, the next president must focus on Russia, Venezuela and Iran as priorities. "Oil, at its current price . . . gives the Russian state a degree of influence and power that it would have not otherwise had," Hayden said.

It gets worse with Iran. "Our judgment is that (Iran could achieve a nuclear bomb) toward the middle of the next decade," he said.

Hayden also warned about Venezuela, just as the U.S. Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Gary Roughead called for more Littoral Combat Ships to check the Russian navy, now in the Caribbean

[if only we had our own oil -- we could sell it and push the price, and our enemy's influence, way down. Why oh why did our forefathers found a country in an area so devoid of resources?]

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