Arik, It's simple, but it's not easy
The Saudis and others in the M.E. are not our friends.
You won't hear that from our administration
Our politicians have been purchased, at our expense.
The M.E. countries are held hostage and are paying "protection" to Al Queda and the others, who are sworn enemies of the US
While we're pussy-footing around with coalition-support to gain easier access and finess internal support, the truth is they are enemies of the US, and cause massive corruption in business and politics.
They are between a terrorist and a hard place, but their policies are still encouraging it. They haven't asked us to help them eliminate Taleban, because they have internalized that into their government. There is nothing to be done but let them fall of their own weight. They are corrupt and useless, as are the Saudi contacts here in the US.
Our politicians also insist on sending $15 billion /year to various violent and corrupt regimes against the interests of the US citizen. Hardly news, since citizens don't vote to increase taxes, either, which go up anyway.
Until M.E. countries eliminate proven violent threats against us, they are enemies of the state, and must be treated as such
That's pretty simple, and well-known.
Unfortunately it looks like we'll continue to see our politicians and our oil men kissing Arab sheiks until we have a political and taxpayer revolt.
Nothing else has worked so far, regardless of the obvious damage being caused, and the deaths of our citizens. |
