Let the incurable Middle East fight among themselves as they have always done

Hugh Prysor-Jones wrote (Chronicles, November 2014) ... “It is disturbing that, for all its apparent Al Qaeda origins and ferocious pseudo-Islamist rhetoric, IS is in fact carrying out the strategic policy of the Saudi Arabian and Israeli governments, which is to inhibit and block the ability of Shia Islam to acquire power and influence in the region.  The overthrow of Saddam Hussein in 2003 created a dangerous possibility that a merged Iran and Shia-majority Iraq would eventually constitute a Shia superstate.  This Shia state might then extend its influence to Alawite-dominated Syria and Shia-dominated Lebanon...Already in a strategic alliance, Tel Aviv and Riyadh reasoned that breaking up Iraq and trying to install a Sunni extremist regime in Damascus were priorities.  They had always been skeptical of U.S. plans to bring democratic institutions to Iraq, because the country’s ethnic arithmetic would inevitably leave the Shia in control...”

Will even one politician ever rise in America and declare that we need to gradually withdraw from our hopeless involvement with Israel, Saudi Arabia, Irag, Iran? Who cares who dominates that region, or who we buy our oil from? Let the incurable Middle East fight among themselves as they have always done.