Have We REALLY Gone to the Moon?

Yes, I know, that this title will set me off as a kook right off the bat.  But truly there are some things that bother me about the moon, traveling to the moon and the exploration of the moon.  They don't make any sense in my head so I will write them down to see if you can help me make sense.

Why Haven't We Gone Back?

Seriously, compared to the 1960s even small countries have technology far exceeding what the U.S. had then.  Just the computer side of it-my laptop has more power than a truck-sized computer did back then.  I've asked this question numerous times to many people and most say, 'there's nothing else to see up there'.  I halfway accepted that answer until recently when numerous scientists began talking excitedly about returning to the moon...maybe in another decade or so. 

Why Haven't We Sent an Unmanned Vehicle to the Moon?

We don't have the technology? Nope.  We don't have the ambition? Nope.  We don't have the budget? Maybe but we just sent another vehicle to Mars.....I would believe that the moon is much closer and easier to land on than Mars.  So why haven't we sent an unmanned vehicle to the moon?  Seriously, why?

Why Haven't Other Countries Sent Exploratory Vehicles to the Moon?

Don't even say it's because they don't have the technology.  Russia built the Space Station.  China is sending up satellites-hell even little countries are doing that.  So why hasn't some other country-India, China, Russia-sent a rocket to the moon?  Makes me wonder on that one too.  I understand maybe we don't have the budget for it but there are many countries that are spending large sums of money going into space now...

Why do Moon Rocks Create Such a Stir that Armed Men are sent to Retrieve Them?

Everyone that always said there was nothing else to find on the moon could never explain this.  Why is it that when a piece of a moon rock that was given to the president of Panama and gets somehow into the hands of a collector cause such a stir and that rock is immediately seized by an equivalent to a swat team?   This makes no sense.

So now that I have written down some of my thoughts to hopefully help quell my own questions-well to say the least I am even more confused and I hate to say that I don't believe we went there because I really believe we did but these questions make me wonder what's up there and why we refuse to go back...