Cenk spoke in yesterdays show about what might be the best way to deal with Iran and stated his opinion that sanctions might be the way to go.
My opinion is the exact opposite. Sanctions unite the people behind the leader, because it shows that other countries are the enemy. I understand that the first impulse when we see an injustice or threat is to punish, but this is in my opinion not the most effective way to deal with such a situation.
We shouldn't exclude Iran and thereby strengthen their opposition to Western society, we should trade with Iran as much as possible.
That makes it harder to motivate people to gather behind a fundamentalist leader.
It also leads to better infrastructure and education in Iran, which is the basis for a working democracy.
Don't drop bombs, drop burgers and laptops.
That's always the best way to fight local propaganda.
Let people in Iran learn about the rest of the world, so they understand their situation in it better. (That's also something that would be helpful for Americans.;-))

I think in the Israeli-Palestinian-conflic t. America could create peace in this area and profit at the same time.
The solution would be that America tells Israel that they cut their military support in half and Israel and Palestine have to decide in which kind of companies in the region they should invest the money. The only condition would be that the people working in those companies would be half Palestinians and half Israelis (and of course both halfs would need to get comparable payments) and the money these companies make goes in equal parts back to the American government and to the Palestinian and Israelian government (or into local education and infrastructure programs).
If they were unable to decide America would just keep the money. I'm sure they would come up with solutions in far less than a year.
This project could indeed create a Domino-Effect in the region and it would be the best way to take power away from fundamentalists on both sites.