It's Time to Throw the Middle East Out of the American Nest

The Middle East is a mess.

In answer to our airstrikes in Amerili, Iraq, the barbarians running ISIS have killed another American hostage. This morning, I read an article about the citizens of Amerili celebrating that ISIS has been moved back from their borders.  Abu Abdullah, the commander of an Iraqi militia that fought on the ground in Amerli, had this to say about the U.S.:  "We do not like the Americans, and we didn't need their airstrikes."

And we have President Obama saying "We don't have a strategy yet." 

what eye thynk:   Well, let me help.  Here's my strategy:  
First ignore war mongers like John McCain (R-Arizona) and Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina).  For some reason, they see American soldiers as expendable commodities. Then...

1. Get out of the Middle East, period.  Put every military adviser, every military trainer and soldier, every ambassador, diplomat, secretary, assistant, every government employee on a U.S. plane and bring them home.  
2. Close our embassies.  Leave the gates open to anyone who wants a dip in an American swimming pool.  
3. Send their ambassadors in the U.S. home.  Maybe they can move into our vacant embassies and enjoy the pool too.  If they want to talk, try Skype.  I hear it's cheap.
4. Immediately stop the selling, shipping or loaning of any weaponry to anyone in the Middle East, no matter on whose side they claim to be fighting.
5. Tell all the presidents, premiers, dictators, military coup winners, heads of state and mullahs that we will no longer be sending them money to help keep them, their regime or their country afloat.  If they are going under for the third time, they'll have to spend some of their own oil-rich monies. The U.S. Bank of Suckers is officially closed.
6. Let these people know there will no longer be any humanitarian aid unless it comes from a joint coalition formed from every nation in the U.N.  We will no longer be heading, promoting or coercing anyone to join us in any humanitarian coalition.  It's some other country's turn to be "It."

We are seemingly in the early decades of a second 100 Year War.  They want us out; but they expect us to come back when things look tough.  We are re-fighting the same battles over and over again.

And, given the cultural corruption in the region, this time we are fighting on both sides.  Each day there is another regime change, a new organization, one hell-bent on bringing America to its knees is suddenly in charge.  We send military aid and weaponry to one side only to see it sold to the opposition.  We send financial aid to a government only to have the leaders line their own pockets or change sides, taking our dollars with them to the enemy.   We answer calls for training only to be killed by those we have trained.  We answer calls for help only to be told "We don't like the Americans" and "We didn't need their airstrikes."

Then do without us!  Fight your own battles!  Kill each other off if you want! Just don't go crying to the world that you were abandoned. We tried.  Eventually even a mama bird gives up on the fledgling who refuses to leave the nest and fly on its own.

Without the drain of W's wars and our seemingly unending efforts to fill and refill the open, grabbing hands stretching from oil-rich, ungrateful "allies," we will be able to take some of those saved billions of dollars and give it to the people in this country to help defray the inevitable rise in gasoline prices.  

There should be plenty left over to re-build our infrastructure--thus creating more American jobs on American soil.  There should even be enough left over to spread a little humanitarian aid in this country.

It's simply time to take care of our own.  Let Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, etc. look elsewhere for assistance in containing their homegrown barbarians.  As my grandmother used to say, "Life is too short to worry about people who don't like you."