Skip, you have the pre-school mentality and it's scary
The notion we've let them alone is absurd and just plain
wrong.
The entire ruling structure in the Middle East was put into place by Western post-colonial powers to ensure the flow of oil after WW2.
The CIA has
TWICE disrupted the government in Iran, helping to overthrow a
DEMOCRATICLLY elected leader in 1953 and propping up the Shaw in the 1970's who's secret police killed thousands.
We spend 5+Billion to help defeat the USSR in the 1980's, training future terrorists only to watch Pakistan insert the Taliban as a ruling power.
We have given the King of Saudia Arabia continued military protection for the past 50 years to ensure below market oil prices, while they've used the money and support to oppress their people and spread radical Islam and anti-western propaganda.
We supported Saddam/Iraq with money and weapons (including some WMD) to fight a proxy war with the USSR through Iran.
We've used the UN to shield Isreal, unfairly at times, from any International pressure for the past 30 years.
And on and on and on...
-spence