But USA has had reason to be "allied" with several of these "Oil socialist" nations.

Especially after Soviet Union fell

Democracy in ME almost always goes to Islamic Theocracy it's just a fact.

That fear stopped Bush Sr from finishing the job in the first gulf war ...

But that was a huge mistake

He should have kept going in first gulf war and oversaw some sort of power transfer

His withdrawal hurt the Kurdish people, in the tens of thousands iirc

Long story short ... Middle East needs fair and free market economies .... imho. One step towards this would be to clear all global debts of IMF and World Bank

This would help out both MENA nations and Mexico

And market economies would potentially help take power out of drug dealers and terrorists

The 2nd Gulf War was unwarranted. But the Sanctions against Iraq were the real crime to the Iraqi people ... the sanctions + the food Blockade.

Iraq's section of ISIS was largely made up of people from Saddams govt and members of the Iraqi Sunni political party

Syria if anything is the nation most amenable to reformation and Market Economies (under Assad)

Also, a lot of the reasons Yugoslavia failed after Tito was because of ethnic and religious tensions ... primarily Islam vs Christianity

Islam and Christianity are diametrically opposed ideologies and cannot exist with any real presence in the same Nation

The Turks forced the Bosnians and Albanians to be Muslim

Yep

And The Albanians were some of the most brutal people in the Ottoman Empire

?

The Albanians were at the fringe of the Empire, perhaps the newest members ...

I could see the Ottomans treating the Albanians the most harshly to keep their holdings

What do u mean about Albanians being the most brutal?

Many notorious Ottoman generals were Albanian

Haha ... the Suzuku of the Muslims ...

Guess they wanted to become the Knight of One

The Albanian nation was actually created because the world community wanted it to exist after the Balkan wars

They thought Serbia and Greece would take it

Hmm.

Albania existed as part of Italy in 1938

Long before the post Tito Balkan wars

Or as a vassal to Italy

Italy used it as a staging ground for part of their invasion into the rest of Yugoslavia

In 1941

I was friends with an Albanian

We use to make fun of him

Was he Christian or Muslim? I don't think it's an 100% Muslim nation.

It's not

"In the 2011 census the declared religious affiliation of the population was: 56.7% Muslims, 13.79% undeclared, 10.03% Catholics, 6.75% Orthodox believers, 5.49% other, 2.5% atheists, 2.09% Bektashis and 0.14% other Christians."

Bosnia is a similar story: 55% Muslim (Bosnacks) , 20% Orthodox (Serbs), 20% Catholic (Croats), 5% other

The top replies for that poll lol

Albania is way more Islam-dominated than Bosnia.