Sep 21, 2014 2 min read

We are sitting on a sea of natural gas, or so we are told.

Wonderful.

Let’s use that gas, oil, and renewable energy to completely disengage from the Middle East. While the people of the region are human beings like the rest of us, their leaders are despicable. Each country is only concerned about its own sphere of influence and nothing else. The various sheiks and potentates are concerned about the next buffet and little else.

Immediately draw all troops out of the region. Shut off funding to the entire region, including Israel. There is too much sectarian violence, not to mention the fact that the area is tribal and clannish. Our time there is wasted, as there is no possibility of victory. Too many American soldiers have been injured or killed for oil. We know that our purported friends are financing radical groups. Why do we deal with them? It is morally reprehensible to fight a particular group, when our alleged friends finance them.

Again, it is all about oil.

It is time for our deluded leaders to wake up and free us from this quagmire. The money we wasted in Iraq and Afghanistan alone could have completely rebuilt America’s infrastructure. The homeland is in decay and Washington, D.C. wants to refight the Crusades. Enough is enough.

Lawrence J. Nader

Canonsburg