Of course...but the mess that set it up to be like this was made by Europe.
Not entirely. The Frogs and the Brits caused the bad felings among the Arabs, but we cut a deal with the House of Saud after the war, and have
spent a lot of effort protecting their interests. We didn't take Baghdad in 1991 because the Saudis wanted a Sunni regime in place, as a buffer against Iran. Probably we
could have set up a Arab Shiite state friendly to ourselves then; instead we let them get slaughtered, and they haven't forgotten.