President Kennedy understood that the competition with the Soviet Union was not space race but a science race, which was really an education race. Yet the way he chose to get Americans excited about sacrificing and buckling down to do what it took to win the Cold War- which required a a large-scale push in science and engineering – was by laying out the vision of putting a man on the moon, not a missile into Moscow. If president Bush is looking for a similar legacy project, there is one just crying out – a national science initiative that would be our generation's moonshot: a crash program for alternative energy to make America energy-independent in ten years. If President Bush made energy independence his moon shot, in one fell swoop he would dry up revenue for terrorism, force Iran, Russia, Venezuela and Saudi Arabia onto the path of reform -which they will never do with $60-a-barrel oil – strengthen the dollar, and improve his own standing in Europe by doing something huge to reduce global warming.
(The World is Flat, Thomas Freedman)
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