Macgregor's latest shot at the matrix: "Sheikhs For Sale"

[Rank amateur]

In response to a number of people above, the problem is welfare economics 101. If you keep sending people a check until the find a job, they don't look for work. If you pay sheiks until they create a nice stable country, they won't create a nice stable country.

Undoubtedly, we've made a bad situation slightly less worse, but when the best arguments intelligent people can make in favour is "We had no other choice," and "the government wastes money at home too," I think you need to concede that it's not exactly the equivalent of raising the stars and stripes atop Mount Suribachi.

(or even any grasp of how carefully its all being thought through, in a strategic sense).

It's nice to know that I'm not the only one.