How Stupid Can We Get? And Stay?

Thinking about that mile-high monument to excess(next post below) has started me wondering how long we are - as a nation - going to stay stupid.

We Americans have given the Israelis billions and billions in financial and military aid over the decades so they could play king of the Middle East sandbox and kick out the Arabs. Now we're giving billions and billions of dollars to the Arabs for insanely overpriced oil so they can keep playing in the same sandbox.

Without us, Israel has nothing. No national treasure, no national assets. No large industries. Not enough of anything to even support themselves. They are trying to exist in the damn desert, a place loaded with sand and rock, but little else, and they would not survive without our endless buckets of money, our fighters, our tanks, our military prowess, and mostly, our nuclear umbrella.

Same with the Johnny-come-lately Arabs, who were originally backed by the Russians, but the Russians got smart and bailed out. Except for the oil, they got nothing but miles and miles of sand and rock also, oil which we originally found and developed in the first place. If they weren't charging us ten times the price for it, they wouldn't be building mile-high monuments to conspicuous consumption and excess, they'd be right back to herding sheep across the desert, riding camels and living in tents as they have for thousands of years.

It's our national wealth, our fortunes, that has allowed them to keep their little dance going. We have been the bottomless pocket for decades, the superpower bully. And now we are financing and supporting BOTH SIDES.

Is that stupid, or what?

How much longer to we put up with this? How much more of our resources, money and blood do we hand over to these two endlessly warring antagonists?

A some point it all has to stop. Let's hope we have a little something left when we finally do put our foot down.

A pox on both their houses. They have ridden on our backs long enough.