The USA is the richest country in the world, and keeps its people ignorant and very poorly educated, for the most part. The ignorance of Americans about anything much that lies beyond their own borders is legendary. Also, the USA funds and supplies a number of Arab states who keep their people poor and uneducated. Like Saudi Arabia, for instance. Saudi Arabia is where most of the 911 hijackers came from. Money talks, morality walks!

And the USA always goes where the money is...and the oil. Funny about that, the two seem to go together, don't they?