I'll go back further than you probably want to and say that the United Nations had NO business creating a country out of whole cloth to make up for what a certain race of people suffered at the hands of other nations. Having gotten THAT out of the way, what makes you believe that we should prop up every country that professes (whether true or not should best be left for another time) to be our friend. I can only think of one country that has ever come to our exclusive aid and that would be France during the Revolutionary war. Others have sided with us during wars and conflicts because it also served their own best interest at the time but now some who HAVE fired on the US now proclaim to be our friends, in large part, because they are receiving the money stolen from you and I at the threat of incarceration. Does this make them our friends? I don't think so. It's like this whole 'war with Iraq' business. Our leaders are talking, what is basically, pre-emptive strikes. You know, do unto others before they get the chance to do unto you. This is NOT grounded in ANY Constitutional ideology and, for that matter, flies directly in the face of everything that a true Constitutional Republic is supposed to stand for. Read the Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire? It could prove quite enlightening to anyone wanting to know what comes next.