That was my point-presidents from a certain party have been using our military as mercenaries in the civil wars of others for awhile-Kennedy, Johnson, Clinton-and without their consent, for free, no less.
The ME probably needs to be isolated and enclosed, no tourist flights to there, and give Israel the stuff to keep them contained. Sooner or later, a group of sensible individuals might emerge to drag them kicking and screaming into the modern world-in a hundred years or so...