Well yeah... Now to be totally honest, the US wouldn't be in the middle east, you can bet the whole sandbox would be total war zone until israel is gone And once gone, you still get the old territorial and ideological disputes and ambitions, to deal with... Sunnis vs chia, kurds, and evidently, the eternal classic "who's going to be super caliph to rule them all" with everybody wanting to be super caliph... Muslims don't need the US to wage wars, and the US presence combined to the whole israel affair "only" contributes to add kerosene to the BBQ So yeah, the title is true, and partially true