Silly Mish. The US is an elected democracy. Going after dictators will never go out of style despite the US installing them a generation ago. I predict by the mid 2020s there will be full scale war from north Africa to Pakistan because of countries that have continued to embrace dictators and they will ask the US to intervene. Saudi Arabia is first culprit. The US isnt the problem in the middle east. As Russia continues to expand its footprint along with China, the middle east will become the battle ground in the Great Game.