What's the West missing in the whole Middle East picture?

[mahnmut]

The advance of Saudi-funded ISIS in Iraq is increasing the sense of an impending chaos in the Middle East. Yep, you heard me. Saudi Arabia is triggering the destabilization in Iraq behind USA's back, and ironically, Iran is offering its help to stop that. Curious, huh? Meanwhile in Libya, the government has become hostage to uncontrollable

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[underlankers]

What has the West missed all along? That it's easier to build an empire for short-term convenience and control of resources than it is to sustain that empire. In the specific case of ISIS in Iraq, not only is it illustrating that America wasted a shit-ton of money and lives to prop up an Iranian satellite, but that as with the ARVN the new Iraqi Army is utterly feckless to fend for itself, which was already shown back in 2008 in Basra and Sadr City. Since 1919, the European Great Powers and then the Soviet Union and United States blithely assumed that even the resident settler-colonial Empire would dance to their beck and call and reality kept persistently obstructing it. So long as the EU desperately needs Middle Eastern oil and the USA's strategic needs ensure no rival has significant means to obstruct EU access, well.......

Middle Easterners will keep seeing tyranny mislabeled freedom and the USA spending scads of money to prop up repressive totalitarian states that call to mind very undesirable phenomena of the recent past, such as endorsing the Pahlavis and Pinochet and other such demonstrations of American Freedom!