I mean, imagine if it were reversed...let's say most of the Western world had been mandated by the Middle East for most of the last century, and let's say the United States elected a president in the '50s who gained popularity through trying to bring the wealth to the people, and then Iran had him overthrown and replaced with a pro-Middle Eastern unpopular tyrant.

Had that been the situation, do you really think the U.S. would be a prosperous and peacefully democratic country today? Not that it's really any of that anymore, but it would be far less so if it had been so badly fucked by another corner of the world. I'd bet you anything there would be a fundamentalist Christian dictator with an extremely hostile stance towards the Islamic world...even more so, I mean.