[Pearls Before Swine]

Well, not really better, and not because of what you wrote.

I’m still confused. Is Obama bowing to the Saudis? Then why give $150 billion and a nuclear green light to the Iranians. I know they’re both Muslims, but don’t they hate each other?

[Garth Tater]

I’m still confused. Is Obama bowing to the Saudis? Then why give $150 billion and a nuclear green light to the Iranians. I know they’re both Muslims, but don’t they hate each other?

There is no rhyme or reason that a person raised in a civilized society can make of the middle east. The centuries old hatreds between the various islamic sects, between the various clans within the sects and now between the various nations all ensure a bubbling sh!t stew where no one thing explains anything over there. And even if you do manage to find a morsel of reason in that stew of hatred by the time the sun rises again someone will have eaten it or stolen it.

[silverleaf]

this is what happens when you have aging ideologue amateurs who really are NOT smart people, all running US foreign policy as an exercise in groupthink

[CivilWarBrewing]

I think it’s about ‘whatever UNDERMINES THE U.S. SPHERE OF INFLUENCE’. Yeah, that’s it.