We have to find a way out of that bind. We are supporting Wahabbism in different ways, leading in part to the current situation.
It’s not a pretty picture, and it is the downside of having the United States dollar as the World’s Currency. We send money to China for their cheap Chicom crap and to finance our debt. The Chinese send some of that money to Saudi Arabia for oil, and the Saudis use some of that money to bribe our government officials. Some of them even give “speeches” for the money. Kind of like how monkeys dance for organ grinders. Pathetic, really. But I digress.
Some of the money is used by China to fund our environmental lobby, like Sierra Club and Natural Resources Defense Council. So does Saudi Arabia and the other Gulf states. After all, who benefits the most from the United States not using our own abundant natural resources? Do you think that those organizations pay for expensive lawyers and lobbyists with the $10 grandma sent them because she saw photo of a sad looking polar bear in her People Magazine? Hell no, that’s REAL MONEY and only the Saudis and Chinese have it.
So the real bind is systemic; the American people have their money siphoned off in amounts that collectively are staggering. A small percentage of that money comes back as bribes to the right people to keep the system running just that way. Changing that system will be very difficult, because we are talking about some very powerful people counting on feeding at a trough of literally trillions of dollars.
The pessimist in me says that system only changes when the trough runs dry. And that will be a very bad day.