[Robert357]

"...why the hell are we involved in any way?"

Because our Saudi masters have told us we need to be. Our elected leaders are slaves to their oil and money.

[robowombat]

Bingo. The duck comes down and awards you $50. Your concise statement describes perfectly the elephant in the living room of the American Political Class. The Saudis have bought the Republicans (remember James Baker the Bush family consigliere) straight up and thoroughly penetrated the Demorats with a combination of bribery and attaching the raghead cause to the chariot of cultural Marxism otherwise known as ‘diversity’. The Chinese have done something similar with both parties but much more quietly and unobtrusively as their culture has a couple thousand years of experience in doing.