Well we're certainly getting the blowback for our Evil Empire ways in the middle east.
This is what happens when you support heinous dictator after heinous dictator simply because you want their oil and/or they're hey! At least not commies!
And we STILL do this--COUGH, COUGH, Saudi Arabia.
I wonder how much different the world would be had we walked the walk in that region over the past century instead of simply talked the talk.