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Jeff Faux   19 November 2015 .  Posted in   News After the sacrifice of thousands of American lives and trillions of dollars, the region is now a cauldron of death and destruction. TO PLACATE their pique at his effort to get a non-proliferation agreement with Iran, Barack Obama met last Thursday at Camp David with Saudi royals and leaders of the other five feudal dictatorships of the Persian Gulf. He reaffirmed the United States "ironclad" commitment to their security and promised even more military aid and cooperation. After the personal dust-up between Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu settles, we can expect the Administration and Congress to add even more steel to our commitment to protect and subsidize Israel by adding more to its already vast store of sophisticated weapons. Thus, we take another step deeper into the tragedy of US intervention in the Middle East that has become a noxious farce. Consider just one of the head-spinning ...