The Insanity of the Middle East and U.S. Energy Policy

No one could make this up in advance.

1st, we overthrow and hang Saddam Hussein, who at the very least was not a good guy since he invaded Kuwait, our ally, after fighting a 10 year war with Iran, our enemy, when he was our friend.

Then we let the majority work it's way in Iraq and the Shiite take control, which makes our ally, Iraq, an ally of Iran, our enemy, and an ally of Assad and Hizbollah.  Our allies, Saudi Arabia and Qater, send money to Sunni militants who are the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan and against the U.S. and our allies, Afghanistan and Pakistan.  But these same Sunni militants are now ISIS who are bad BAD BAD and our enemy.  But Assad, Iran, & Hizbollah are also anti-ISIS so they are now our allies despite our considering them our enemies.  And we still consider the Saudis and the Qatar's our allies despite their sending money to ISIS our enemy.

So just who are our allies and our enemies?  Seems like the best thing we could do is revamp our energy policy to reduce our reliance on oil so the price falls substantially and hurts both Putin, Iran, and Saudi Arabia.  But the Republicans won't allow that so their policies support the flow of funds to Putin, Iran and Saudi Arabia and onto ISIS.

I just want to go golfing and have a few beers with my friends because the incoherency of all this is overwhelming.