What is our policy in the Middle-East?

[louis c]

Is it to punish Muslims as a group, for members of their faith's attacks and atrocities against us? Or is it to win their hearts and minds to have them develope a western attitude? If it's the later, how is it that even our supposed allies cannot be associated with America without alienating huge majorities of their populace. Not only Saudi Arabia, but Egypt, Jordan, and our puppet government in Iraq must have an anti-American face to be accepted at home. If the answer is the former, why the hell are we spending hundreds of billions of tax-payers dollars to convince them we're their friends? And please don't just say oil, because in order to obtain oil, all we have to do is buy it.