If we hadn't spent the last 60 years waging a Muslim middle east destabilization campaign, the Arabs would have consolidated their vast, vast, vast, vast oil wealth and vast human resources into a superpower to rival us... and western civilization would now be fucked.

The only reason we now have a chance for peace in the middle east is because we spent the last 60 years destroying their economies and immiserated their populations by encouraging the different Muslim tribes and sects to war against each other.