In retrospect Trump nailed it, we deposed the Shah (under Carter) Hussein (under Bush) Kadafi and Mubarek (under Obama) these guys were all b@$stards, but say what you will they kept a lid on their wackos.
The Arab world is full of b@stards, it’s who they are, and we will never change that fact.
What we can't wrap our heads around it that in this part of the world that seems to have a propensity to devolve to Islamic rule and potentially towards full blow Shariah Law, the best we can do at times is a Strong Armed Nationalist Leader and or Dictator in all but name and that a Democracy like, the US, and or our Allies as in England and Canada for example, is not something that seems to happen organically after we get rid of the "bad" guys.
Sadly that is the reality of it, grandiose visions of anything else has shown us in the last 40 years to be folly ...