Cause and Effect, Dog Eat Dog

They say that a sure sign of insanity is continuing to do the same thing while expecting a different result. If this is true, then the country, or at least its government, is pretty nuts.
Looking at the recent tragedy in Boston, the lives destroyed or wasted, it's clear that the Salafi/Wahabbi strain of Islam is a clear existential threat. Tamlan Tsaraev wasn't a real threat to anyone until he came into contact with and under the sway of this intolerant, vitriolic, and hatefully violent strain of Islam. Salafists don't even like their fellow Muslims very much, destroying as they do Sufi shrines (Rumi, for instance, was a Sufi), attacking Shiites, and even other Sunnis that they just don't like, or that they deem "not religious enough."
Yet, this country, as well as others in the West, continue to support and send petrodollars to the giant of the Wahabbi world, Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia sends Wahabbi missionaries throughout the Islamic world, and the result is always trouble. Salafist/Wahabbist radicals have stirred trouble in Morocco, Indonesia, Tunisia, metastasizing and doing their level best to warp Islam in such places. Look at Timbuktu; a center of Islamic learning for centuries, what happened when Salafists gained control of it from the Malian government? They started systematically destroying shrines that were centuries old, attacking imams that were Sufi/non-Salafi, and generally made life difficult for the people there. Bear in mind, the people of Mali are Muslim. Even so, they weren't spared the violence of Salafist/Wahabbists.
The men who flew the planes into the WTC were Saudi. Saudi Wahabbist missionaries spread their liturgy of hatred and violence in the Islamic world, quietly and not-so-quietly, yet we and Israel are fixated on Iran as the enemy. Iran engulfs our attention, because of their designs of hegemony in the region, because they want to be taken seriously. Well, duh, everyone wants to be taken seriously, and exercise some form of influence. Why should the Iranians be any different? We do it all the time.
Someday, Israel and the West are going to have to wake up to the fact that Iran is not the real threat. Yes, Ahmadinejad is loud, but that just means he's goofy. Saudi Arabia's Wahabbist missionaries, meanwhile, continue to spread their vile message, funded by our petro dollars.
The Buddha warned that all actions create kamma, that the law of cause and effect is one that we all follow simply by virtue of acting. We have to start acting more intelligently, with wisdom, so as not to sow seeds that will bear bitter fruit later.