Probably not a popular position these days but a case could be made that we DID start the fire or at least fanned the flames with the help of the Russians, Chinese and Koreans among others. The US military industrial complex has been pouring - I mean POURING to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars in arms into that region for decades. Is it any great surprise that the arms get put to use? Don`t kid yourselves that the US is the squeaky clean victims in all of this.