The Western Foreign policy in this region, has, for decades, been an utter joke, where three year old kids could have made better strategic decisions.
We tend to forget the nine year war, where a US backed, and fully funded Saddam Iraq war against Iran, claiming 1,000,000 lives, ended, then the US turned on Sadam, and the rest is history, as they say.
In reality, no one really knows what to do, however, the pot was stirred with the inavsion of Iraq, and now everyone must reap what was sown. If it ever ends, it is not going to end well methinks