Well put, except this:  "The reality is that they have been sent into a theater of war to fight amid battles that started in the B.C.'s. These conflicts resolved nothing and have had no winner for thousands of years."  It's what is called "historical essentialism," which is a fancy way of saying "it is what it is."  Applied to our own country it reads, "America is great because Americans are great," i.e., American "exceptionalism."  That is not thinking, it's Trumping.

Better to look for the roots of Middle East conflict in specific factors.  Some are well-known, such as the continuous meddling by Europeans and Americans in the region for the last century.  Another is the stultifying effect of Islam on general intellectual endeavor at the popular level.  But one that is usually overlooked is simply waterlessness.  Water is the foundation of all prosperity.  Oil can't make up for it.  Lay a map of water-poor regions over a map of Islamic countries.  It's revealing.