re: #16 Fozzie Bear

Instead, we just literally bribed a dictator for 30 years. And nobody seems to give a shit.

Longer than that, the bribe started with Sadat.

At the time it was pretty much accepted that Egypt’s dictator was being paid to not make war with Israel. If the largest army in the middle east could be held back by a billion dollars a year, and no other ME country would go to war without them, then it was thought to be money well spent.

A muslim leader could even find justification in the Koran for accepting this sort of tax.