Thank you for so ably stating what I have been saying for all of these years. It all started with Bush Sr. sending in US troops to save a Muslim monarchy. From there it spread to destroying the Saddam Hussein dictatorship. Was Saddam a murderous dictator? Yes, but he kept the peace among his country’s factions just as Tito kept the peace in Yugoslavia until he died.
It was none of our business. Now, years later, after thousands of American troops have been killed and billions of dollars spend, what do we have? We have a splintered and dysfunctional Iraq, an Iran that no longer has a counter-balance, a mess in Afghanistan, etc., and now the current banana occupying the White House is out to destroy the one true friend we have in the Middle East, that being Israel.
Read up on the Jonathan Pollard case, for example . . . or the well-documented track record of the Israeli government over the years in selling U.S. military technology to countries that would never be permitted to buy such things from the U.S. (China, for example).