Okay, here's Homerun04's plan:
No nukes....use total conventional weapons...go in to THE ENTIRE MIDDLE EAST (Isreal, Iraq, Iran, Jordan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Turkey, Lebanon, Syria, etc) and take over the ENTIRE region...make each country a new state within the United States....make each citizen a citizen of the United States....give them all the rights as a US citizen...collect taxes from them.....and make them ALL adhere to our laws and rules.....if they rape, they go to jail ; if they steal; they go to jail......just like any other US citizen. They would have to be tolerant of religious differences (like we are), and learn to live under a system based on the seperation of church and state.
Then we reform our legal system in the US (which would now include all these new states) to no longer be a joke (take all the liberalism out of it). No more OJ's or Michael Jackson verdicts. Make it tougher and serious for a change.
We (USA) would get all the oil, and stop all the hatred and wars once and for all....and since the Soviet Union is no more, no country would stop us nor could stop us. In fact - behind closed doors - I'd bet most leaders of all countries would LOVE it if the USA did this. The only concern would be China....and seriously folks, who much should we care what China thinks about world affiars. Here is a country that so much wanted to be isolated from the rest of what was happening in the world that they tried to build a wall around their entire country. They wont care much.