text: The Middle East now isn't 1930s Europe, substantially different historically, culturally, religiously. The ME was 'broken' by western powers (who thought they were exceptional and superior) meddling in the Great Game long before our time. Iraq is an artificial country, like an MMA octagon with several oppositional fighters in a free for all. The 'shambles' has long been there, in great part because we egoistical, civilized westerners think we have the Christian right to 'do good', just as we've mistakenly thought we were the bulwark against communist hordes in SE Asia. You assume that by staying in Iraq and elsewhere in the Middle East, we can 'fix it' and bring western style democracy there. Good luck with our being an occupational force. Once again, it's that haughty, condescending, falsely superior Christian attitude of thinking you/we know better than those 'Muslim savages.' We are reaping what we have sown, more so because of that ignorant racist buffoon in the White House.