There's only one reason we have ever been involved in middle eastern issues and it ain't oil and it ain't civil rights and it ain't even some "vast right wing" conspiracy cooked up by the falwells and robertsons of the world to hasten armageddon or convert the heathens and it ain't even some idealistic attempt to bring democracy to the downtrodden...we have been screwing with the middle east and all the other cultures we have screwed with for one reason...Money!!
Just my opinion but it works for me.