Why do we need a Sunni counterweight to Iran?
ISIS is Sunni
Besides that, Sunnis and Shias have been at each other’s throats for over 1,000 years. Sometime one has had the upper hand in a region, sometimes the other.
Neither one likes us or any Western country or would lift a finger to help us in any way (unless they can get us to fight their wars for them). They’d rather see us dead.
What is our stake in an Islamic religious civil war?
Its about oil. We have a huge economic vested interest in not having the majority of the world’s oil supply and reserves controlled by either the communists in Venezuela or radical Islamic fundamentalist terrorists in the Middle East.
While we are making huge strides toward energy independence, we still import about 25% of the oil we consume.
Look at it this way, the President just negotiated the largest arms sale in U.S. history with the nation that controls the richest corporation in world history, Saudi Aramco (Saudi Arabian Oil Company). Its “The Art of the Deal,” its what Donald Trump does.