On another thread, someone recommended Destiny Disrupted.

It is an excellent book – well written with no political axe to grind. One of its main points is that until perhaps the 1800s, Muslims regarded the Muslim world as -the- world, and paid little attention to the West. When they woke up, they discovered that the West was a far more advanced and powerful world and that some of their states had been, in their eyes, colonized. In their eyes, we started it

This reality did not fit well with the teaching that dar-el-Islam would be triumphant. Combine that with the message from the Wahabis that all would be well if only Muslims returned to the true faith, and here we are.

Israel is seen as a colonial outpost, but it could go away tomorrow and little would change. If we got off the oil teat, then no one would care about the region. That day is a long way off, so we are stuck with sucking up to and defending Saudi Arabia, which continues to fund the Wahabis.