That is precisely the opposite of reality. We have been working hard at stabilizing the ME since the 40s, and been willing to partner with some bastards to do it.
saddam was our guy as long as he was killing iranians in the '80's. He was just as brutal, just as tyrannical and just as lethal to his own citizens as later but we didn't mind as long as he danced when we pulled the strings.
We gave him weapons, satellite intel and cia support just as fast as we could. We were still pissed off about the iran hostage situation in the late '70's and were letting iraq fight for us by proxy.
Now, the kuwait business;
Over a period of decades, and especially in recent years, Britain and the U.S. have consciously manipulated tensions in the region and have masterfully set into motion sequences of events leading to the Iraqi invasions. The purpose of these manipulations was to increase power and control over middle eastern governments and their oil resources by elite U.S. and British interests.
Prior to WWI there was no iraq/iran, etc..the area was called Persia or the Ottoman Empire.
As the victors of World War I, France and Britain dismantled the Ottoman Empire and the Arab nation for their own colonial purposes. The Iraq Petroleum Company was created in 1920 with 95% of the shares going to Britain, France, and the U.S. In order to weaken Arab nationalism, Britain blocked Iraqi access to the Persian Gulf by severing the territorial entity, "Kuwait" from the rest of Iraq in 1921 and 1922
Iraq had a historical claim to Kuwait as it used to be part of (what was now called) "iraq"
Following World War II, British rule was gradually replaced by U.S. neo-colonial domination of the Middle East. The new state of Israel became an important instrument for U.S. control of Middle Eastern oil in the post war era. With the U.S./Israeli sponsored coup of 1953 that deposed Mossadegh, the popularly elected president of Iran, and installed the Shah in his place, the U.S. became the dominant imperial power in the region.
Moving forward, the Shah of iran was a brutal, tyrannical lethal dictator who ruled with an iron fist...but we propped him up because he danced when we pulled the strings.
Eventually he was deposed by his own people and fled to the U.S. which further increased hatred of america for sheltering him...the iranians seized our embassy and held 40 or 50 hostages..etc..you know the story.
Zbigniew Brzezinski, President Jimmy Carter's National Security Adviser, proposed to Saddam Hussein that he invade Iran and annex Khuzistan, thereby providing Iraq access to the Gulf through the narrow waterway, Shatt-al Arab. The U.S. hoped to use Iraq to counter the radicalism of the Khomeini regime in Iran from spreading to oppressed peoples of the Emirates and to Saudi Arabia. Saddam Hussein was guaranteed financial backing in the form of loans from Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and other nations.
About half a million Iranians and Iraqis were killed in the Iran Iraq war, and unbeknownst to Hussein, the U.S. and Israel also secretly armed the Iranians so as to weaken both Iran and Iraq. President Ronald Reagan's special envoy, Donald Rumsfeld visited Saddam Hussein once in late December 1983 and again in March 1984. These visits paved the way for the normalization of relations between the U.S. and Iraq at a time when Saddam Hussein was using chemical weapons in his war against Iran. Iraq had been removed from the U.S. State Department's list of alleged sponsors of terrorism in 1982, and Iraq went on a buying spree to purchase weapons from U.S. and German companies. These weapons were used in 1988 for attacks against the Kurds.
So saddam got chemical weapons from us, used them on iran and the kurds but it was ok...he still danced when we pulled the strings.
Almost done..just a little more;
On September 18, 1990, the Iraqi Foreign Ministry published verbatim the transcripts of meetings between Saddam Hussein and high level U.S. officials. Knight-Ridder columnist James McCartney acknowledged that the transcripts were not disputed by the U.S. State Department. U.S. Ambassador April Glaspie informed Hussein that, "We have no opinion on...conflicts like your border disagreement with Kuwait." She reiterated this position several times, and added, "Secretary of State James Baker has directed our official spokesman to emphasize this instruction." A week before Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, Baker's spokesperson, Margaret Tutwiler and Assistant Secretary of State John Kelly both stated publicly that "the United States was not obligated to come to Kuwait's aid if it were attacked." (Santa Barbara News-Press September 24, 1990 cited in [1]).
So with a wink and a nod, the u.s implied that it would be none of our business if iraq reclaimed the territory that kuwait had stolen from them...essentially baiting saddam into something we knew would inflame the area...which would allow us to come in and play the "good guy".
We double crossed saddam purposely with the intention of further destabilizing the area.
Same situation with afghanistan, essentially...When they were killing russians we couldn't do enough for them..weapons, intel, cia...etc...look how well our interference there has worked out for us...
fast forward to libya, egypt, and now syria...Gee.. I wonder why they hate our guts in the ME? /sarcasm
Here's my source..and if you don't like it (and surely SOMEBODY won't) google for your own source..but the truth is large and these are the facts.
Iraq & Kuwait