As for meddling

Look at the random legislation a congessional panel just passed: 1914 (I believe) Turkish violence against the Kurds should be officially considered genocide.
1) The Iraq government close to dissolving which we put in place.
2) Keeping the Saudi Arabian royalty in place in order to keep the oil gushing, but are funneling money to extremist groups to keep the peace the kingdom
3) Lebanon close to a civil war
4) On again off again relationship with Syria
5) Israel and a peace process that has stalled for 10 years
6) Egypt and Jordan who keep pressing for a peace process but are in US pockets by the billions of subsidies they get by the US which in fact is greater than what Israel get

And finally Turkey. A liberal democratic Arab country which just had a military coup to keep it liberal. And another key fact, stable. They actually have a healthy relationship with Israel. And historically the capital and headquarters of what was known as the Ottoman Empire. An empire in its day as mighty as any Western Empire. A country that let US set up shop in the Iraq War, albeit temporarily.

But the US seems to not want a healthy relationship with a thriving country. Do we want our country to also meddle in global warming which will turn out to be another boiler plate.

We just started our ethanol kick and grains have risen 60% while only one nuclear power plant license was filed. Where are our priorities?

It's is for the leaders to maintain power which in this country is to buy votes for the big boys and screw everyone else. That truly is the beginning of the middle stretch of a Republic not a Democracy where our votes actually count.

But alas we do have one free market and that is capital markets the only place where there is a $ sign for all legislation.

I guess what we can do is profit from it, write letters to our leader, and strike up conversation.