The Middle East matters...?
To Europe, which doesn't have any remaining significant fossil fuels is set to become the vassal of whoever gets them the best deal on real energy resources.
To China, which doesn't have any significant fossil fuels, either.
To all sorts of other s-hole countries that want to modernize.
But NOT to the US. The ME was important to the US during the Cold War because we weren't properly extracting our own resources....didn't know what we had, for the most part. Thanks to President Trump, the US achieved energy independence and should have properly told all those Middle Eastern s-hole countries that they should go ahead and kill as many of themselves as they can, we'll be glad to sell them the guns and bombs and airplanes to do it with. But that our citizen-soldiers are coming home, those fights over there are no longer our fights, they have ceased to have strategic relevance to the world's superpower.
So long as they restrict themselves to killing each other over there, I don't see it being any of our business.
And if they resume killing us over here, we shouldn't play pansy games with them like Bushy and the Illegal Alien did, we should nuke whichever and however many of the cities over there that make us feel better. Time for playing patty-cake with those animals should be over by now.
