Check out this magnificent thing that Sheldon Richman wrote back in August 1991 about “Uncle Sam” ruining everything in the Middle East since back when the U.S. took over for the British.
Provoked Gets a Positive Review in the Army War College Quarterly, Parameters
This is a prestigious and widely admired quarterly in the military and defense intelligentsia milieu. https://press.armywarcollege.edu/parameters_bookshelf/80/