Norm's calculus:
Gain one "ally" in the ME with a propped-up government in Eye-rack that will not survive 2 weeks when the last U.S."Coalition" troups pull out.
Lose just about all our NATO allies, whose backing has meant a whole lot more over the decades than any puppet govenrment we can install to expidite the extradition of all the [oil].
Brilliant math, dude! Hey, Know what? I got this bridge....
jb4
shrub\ufffdbish (Am., from shrub + rubbish, after the derisive name for America's 43 president; 2003) n. 1. a form of nonsensical political doubletalk wherein the speaker attempts to defend the indefensible by lying, obfuscation, or otherwise misstating the facts; GIBBERISH. 2. any of a collection of utterances from America's putative 43rd president. cf. BULLSHIT