Not your friend.
The Gulf Monarchies are corrupt. Monarchies in this day in age? They keep their roiling masses pacified by using petrodollars to pay them off, but when the oil runs out, they are going to be in trouble...
Al Qaeda is gone, ISIS is largely gone, but it's only a matter of time before we get the new flavor. What we need to do is take the money we currently spend playing Hall Monitor in the Middle East and invest it into clean, alternative energy and infrastructure.
Or we can just wait for the Chinese to beat us to it.
You're not a Democrat. I'm thinking you are either a Russian Troll or a racist Republican.