You overlook the fact that if we aren't in the ME, someone else will be, see WWI and WWII for proof of this. Because the countries are too small and to fend off the massive foreign powers and too wealthy for the foreign powers to just let them be. Not to mention the powers seekers that want to ride Islam to the Ottoman throne.
I disagree with your assessment that region of the world is inherently ed...that region of the world is ed because of what the European powers did to it.
The region of the world did not itself up...
I'd generally agree with you that we should stay out of it, but we can't do undo that decision now. We already went into it, and once we went into it it was the chance to un that region of the world.
You are never going to defeat the Israelies with violence...
You don't agree with the military option? Fair enough...then about that government like your fellow Iranians are doing, about it more then you about the US.