Maybe we need to try and transform the ME without military forces.
Transform this...
And why are you so certain the Middle East has the least wish to be transformed ? Isn't that an incredibly arrogant certainty on your part ? Who told you that they look up to and admire you and want to be just like you ?
Isn't the entire point of oil wealth that they don't have to transform ? That they can just buy Western things and remain medieval societies ?