We’ve also been waging war against them off and on for decades. In fact, in the last few decades we’ve caused the deaths of millions of innocent people in the Middle East with our hawkish foreign policy and intervention in the region.
I’m not saying that Muslim nations are full of angels or anything, they do plenty of bad things. But when it comes to war, I doubt that any modern Middle Eastern nation is as aggressive as the USA is.
Even if the Middle East was exceptionally warlike, which it’s probably not, it still wouldn’t justify committing genocide against hundreds of millions of innocent people - which I really hope you’re not serious about.
The best thing that we can do with the Middle East is, coincidentally enough, the best thing that we can do with Eastern Europe - leave them the hell alone.
There was absolutely no situation where the gulf arabs were going to have a good time.
Lets get that out of the way, that wasn't in the cards.
Culturally speaking they have been a spent force since the days of the Ottoman Turks who conquered and colonized them. The foundation of their wealth as a people was the silk road and that was forever destroyed by oceanic travel. Their current foundation of their wealth is Oil a resource that wont last forever and where a whole lot of effort to replace it is going to happen.
At the moment of their independence they were weak and resource rich which is a recipe for being preyed upon by stronger neighbors. The deal they had with the united states was simple.
1. Don't ally with the soviet union.
2. Become fucking rich by selling oil to the west.
3. Don't be a twat.
By historical standards we have been fucking gentle with them. Fucking gentle, the turks wouldn't have been nearly as nice as us and I know that because the historical record is full of Turks making examples of Arabs who decided to get froggy. Every country in the middle east who followed these simple rules? They made money hand over fist.
And no I absolutely do not feel sorry for the Arab people like at all.
This is a group of people who have a quite a few genocides under their belts, this is a group of people who conquered half of christendom and came very close to finishing it off. This is a group of people who still enslaves black people to this day. The arab world has been a horrifically bad neighbor to have for litteral centuries.
What the west has done to them is fucking restrained compared to the shit the islamic world did to the west when they had the upper hand. Fucking restrained. I have zero pitty for this part of the world they litterally bring half the bad shit that happens to them on their own heads, the other half is living in the fucking desert which always sucks.
My money, as soon as it hits that we don't care any more and shit gets real there is going to be a three way fight between the saudi's the Iranians, and the turks for who gets to be king shit, and my bet is were going to see arabs licking the turkish boot again with in our lifetimes.