Why are we still in the Middle East? We don't need their oil anymore. The Middle East has rarely known peace between empires' competition to control it.
Zionism is not compatible with democratic ideals. Zionism is the Jewish re-conquest of Canaan. Palestinian Arabs cannot be equal citizens in a Zionist state because they will eventually outnumber Jews, and have the democratic majority in Government.
At best, Zionism affords 2nd class apartheid citizenship to Palestinian Arabs to maintain a majority Jewish government. The current conservative Israeli policy towards Palenstinian Arabs appears to be civil ethnic cleansing at best, and genocide at worst.
A majority Palestinian Arab Government would disown the Jewish population, and carry forth a policy of ethnic cleansing or genocide towards Jews, and possibly all non-Muslims.
There is no reason to be there other than for control of natural resources (which we no longer need from them). What is America's strategic need to be there? Europe and Asia have strategic interests in the Middle East, but the US does not.
There is no strategic benefit for America to expend blood, treasure, and reputation to provide protection to other nations' interests.
Many Middle East territories became French and British protectorates as the Ottoman Empire declined and collapsed. After World War II, the United States backfilled Britain and France as protectors in the Middle East as French and British colonial empires collapsed under their own weight. America inserted itself into the region to mainly foil Soviet influence in the area during the Cold War.
Cold War v1.0 is over. America is not dependentent upon Middle East oil anymore. The prime beneficiaries of Pax Americana in the Middle East are Saudi Arabia, Europe, India, China, and Asia; not America.
Maybe it's time America stopped shoveling sand against the tide in the Middle East, and reduced its presence and profile in the region.
America's strategic diplomatic and economic interests are in the Western Hemisphere, Africa, and the Indo-Pacific.
Let some other empire bankrupt itself attempting to inflict peace and prosperity upon a region that is in a perpetual state of civil war.