answer:@ETpro – you have the motivations all wrong. Consider that during the Bush years, and now in the Obama years, the pro-israel lobby has been exceedingly powerful, both on the media and in various political positions. You don’t need to do much research to identify the neo-Cons who were ( and are) pushing American policy in the middle east to israel’s advantage. And if that meant invading a couple of Arab countries… well, too damn bad….