[TheSollyLama]

Actually Phil, that's a damn good idea. The elite of the arab world live lives of incredible luxury thru oil sales- and do little to earn any of it. Our soldiers have time and again sacrificed to maintain the oil flow- which benefits the arab leaders far more than it benefits us.

But why stop there? Canada has hidden behind the skirt of the US for decades- saving enough on defense to spend on public healthcare. Why not charge Canada, our biggest oil supplier, for decades of protecting them so they could have a miniscule military.

How about charging the UN for back rent on that office space in NYC? The US's backing of the corrupt and ineffective UN has cost the US taxpayer far more than it's benefited them.

I think you hit the nail right on the head calling the mid-east strategy little more than welfare. I think you ought to expand that to many other recipients of US goodwill.....and tax dollars...........