[Seti 1]

Actually, Georgie Anne Geyer continues to ignore the fact that for all its effort to treat the Arab world as if it were a worthy member of the civilized world, the only thing that the the U.S. has gotten in return is oil.

Only oil, huh? And what have we gotten from Israel except endless grief?

[Truthfairy]

...what have we gotten from Israel except endless grief?

Just to name two things a non-nuclear Iraq and eyes and ears on the Arab world while it was sucking up to the Soviet Union during the cold war. Of course, in reality, the Arabs "helped" the Soviet Union about the same way they are now "helping" us -- by weighing us down with their endless rivalries, power games, and shame avoidance. I think we should arrange things so that they offer their "help" to China.