The Mideast is “desperate for US leadership” like the septic tank a few hundred feet away from my door is desperate for leadership. It is not a single entity wanting anything coherent from anyone other than our destruction and its own martyrdom, in that order.
If our choice is to become embroiled in endless wars and collapsed states like Syria and Libya under the brilliant stewardship of the likes of Hillary Clinton or to leave them to their own devices, my suggestion is we allow them to kill each other off. They are or will be nuclear armed within the next decade and will likely have the means to deliver same to CONUS. There’s nothing there for us. We have tried to do good, we have tried to do evil, and the result is inevitably the same thing, death and destruction. It’s simply a craphole and will always be a craphole until enough people die so they give up their craphole ideology. That is potentially millions and millions of deaths away, sad but true.
Pump it out.