A Saudi hit and run criminal breaks his electric ankle bracelet and flees America

[Angrboda]

Saudies began to break your laws and throw their feces on your constitution, Americans:

Exactly. I was told recently on this forum that the American foreign policy "intel led". Fifteen of the nineteen 9/11 hijackers came from Saudi but the poor people of Afghanistan and Iraq suffer instead of the Saudi royals. The American government is full of misers and morons. The people who claim that American foreign policy is not led primarily by the profit motive are also morons. The USA doesn't care about "intel"; if they did Saudi would be burning right now - for supporting terrorism.

I would agree that the profit motive has an enormous influence upon American foreign policy. I wouldn't go so far as to say it is the primary influence on it, and that its influence upon foreign policy likely varies on a case by case basis. One would be hard pressed to claim that our motive for interfacing with North Korea is primarily economic. True, if you twist your scrotum into a knot, you can explain everything as ultimately being grounded in self interest, i.e. economics, but the proximal causes are not obviously economic. So, I sympathize with your point, I can't agree with it. Some, perhaps even a lot, of American foreign policy has a strong economic basis. But certainly not all. And how much falls in each bin is a very broad and open question. The existence of examples where economic concerns were clearly the driving force in American foreign policy do not prove the general case, and most such examples are picked largely for the rhetorical value they posses rather than that they demonstrate any general point about U.S. foreign policy.

So, if you want to think I'm a moron, you certainly can. You have that right. I will continue, however, to protest otherwise.