You can't limit it to middle east.the game is basically strategic.it is preplanned not accidental.this is today's politics that follows its own interest and doesn't care for other see Americans had stranded us in war on terror.we failed to understand what were good and bad Taliban.we woke up after APS incident.we are made fool shed our own blood in this way they can keep us busy and they will play their games by keeping us in debt over and over again.so on one side they by giving us loans and their outdated weaponry can keep us intact and on other by destabilizing us economically they can keep us fighting with our own brother for centuries through proxy war game.check out snakes from america to India..that's their business to gain strategic control