I don't know that money has ever been the issue. What we seem to lack is real conviction to fight the ideologies supporting ISIS. The real problem is the Gulf

I don't know that money has ever been the issue. What we seem to lack is real conviction to fight the ideologies supporting ISIS. The real problem is the Gulf States. Wahhabism is a very similar strain of Islam to what ISIS believes. That's a unique threat to the Gulf monarchies, and they are vulnerable to a theological insurgency until they figure out how to pivot from an intolerant oil sheikh culture to a diversified merit-driven economy. 100 years is a long time, but I think as a country we're clinging to an unsustainable Middle Eastern policy and until that changes I am skeptical that we beat back the ideology, and by extension the violence that it encourages.