The Middle East is increasingly coming under the control of Islamists who really do hate us and really do want to destroy Western society and install an Islamist theocracy everywhere. They are quite clear about this and they mean it.

If we let our military do what it was designed to do, instead of trying to be diplomats or police, then the Middle East would be exactly like Germany and Japan after WWII, in rubble. Then we could do with the Middle East exactly what we did with Germany and Japan, rebuild those nations as democratic societies with personal and economic freedoms for everyone. This would be a million times better for world peace in the long run than trying to placate mullahs who will always want to kill us.