if you need a platoon, send a batallion. you want to deal with the overwhelming force and we're feeling the best military in the history of the world, but the energy security leadership counsel's recommendation and it's offshoot, the -- has worked on this issue. correct me if i'm wrong, the incentives which were recommended total over a ten-year period, $15 billion? is that close? over ten years. and it is a tiny fraction of the money we spend on the military, which is $550 billion a year or something like that. that doesn't count the cost of combat operation. this country has spent in iraq, in afghanistan, well north of a trillion dollars. a prominent conservative mentioned to me this morning, well, the original afghanistan war wasn't really about oil. that's as i said earlier, osama bin laden declared war on the united states in 1998 because our troops were in saudi arabia and our troops were this saudi arabia because of the gulf war one. and president george herbert walker bush said the war was about oil. alan greenspan r