It's amazing, how Bush can make Obama screw the pooch
Ike I think people blame Israel for a lot of the ME stuff because the whole rotten sunni/shia mess is hard and Palestine vs Israel is easy. But right now it's mostly the regional players being FORCED to step up (and maybe seeing blowback from their own stupid moves), hopefully a home grown solution is worked out (with us trying to advance our interests of course) and some sort of stability takes hold.
And while we're at it, I'd like a puppy :/
Pete