Our debt is rapidly closing in on $17 trillion. The fact that the administration and/or loons in congress are even considering spending even more is completely insane. How many times have we heard Admiral Mullen and others tell us the country’s debt is a threat to national security?
If its not an existential crisis threatening the nation, we simply cannot afford it. We are broke.
But, if some other entity (Saudi) is willing to pay you big money to see that things changed in Syria, Obama might have gone along with it.
Maybe it IS about the Benjamins - and we have out-of-this-world debt and deficit that we can't get out of - unless a fairy godmother or fairy godfather comes along and helps US out.
US could use a little spending money to get economy back on track.
We'll call it "Saudi Stash".