We would probably not have opposed him, had his great plan not included smacking us around. Since in effect both the Saudis and the Turks aspired to build a great Central Asian empire, we could happily have ridden in on either horse.
But if he's going to start knocking down our buildings, well, that puts a different spin on it, doesn't it?
The oddest thing is that now we are there, firmly ensconced, without either of them, by Russian invitation.