Other items, like health care reform and establishing a revamped national energy policy and a financial services regulatory plan, will take longer.

FORBES: Election 2008

Meanwhile, our lack of a national energy policy causes us to squander financial resources and ruin the environment.

FORBES: Hurricanes Drive Home Appeal Of Alternative Energy Sources

Finally, at this time of national trauma when policy-makers are reviewing carefully the full array of financial policy tools and options to combat the scourge of international terrorism and those that aid and abet it, this comprehensive report should help stimulate a needed national debate.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center for Security Policy | Nexus between US-China security relations and America��s capital markets

Casey Institute of the Center for Security Policy was formally launched on 13 March 1996 with the mission of exploring the nexus between international financial, energy, trade and technology flows and traditional U.S. national security policy concerns.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: The William J. Casey Institute

In recent letters to America's largest banks and hedge funds, Center for Security Policy President Frank Gaffney, Jr. has warned financial executives about the potential regulatory, legal and national security pitfalls of "Shariah-Compliant Finance" (SCF).

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: The perils of Shariah-compliant finance