There is much more at stake in the ME; complete Israeli hegemony achieved by the fragmentation of Arab societies along sectarian lines in order to keep them in a state of continual war and underdevelopment. This is being achieved with the consent of thuggish and corrupted regimes whose only concern is their own survival and not the development of their countries and people. Worse, their survival depends strictly on the cultural and economic underdevelopment of their populations which, at the same time, helps the US-Israeli agenda because as long as these regimes exist against their own populations, the fragility of their power makes it easy to keep them on a leash. We are witnessing an extraordinary convergence in the interests of those regimes and those of Israel and the US in the ME.
However, not only the people of the ME are paying the price for these irresponsible policies, we, in the west, are paying also with mounting insecurity and other threats on our liberties and daily lives !