"Israel has no oil and is a net consumer of US tax dollars. The Arabs, by contrast, have all the oil and will obligingly mop up billions of our inflation-soaked dollars in exchange."
So basically, we should abandon good people who just want to live and let live because they are not as strong and profitable to us as the bad people who want to kill the good people.
How French.
Nations do not have friends. They only have interests.
What I have proposed is a good imperial solution. But since the US is an anti-imperial institution, it is structurally incapable of doing what is necessary. Therefore, the best option at this point is for the troops to withdraw to Kuwait and Qatar and let the Shia and Sunnis sort things out for themselves.