The involvement of Anglo-America geo-political strategy in the middle east has been tragic and is detailed by author Andre Gerrolymatos in a great Middle east boo called " Castles In The Sand" where basically every western intervention in this region in the past one hundred years id retold. As the western powers sought to reshape the region in their own images and prevent the Soviet Union/mother Russia from spreading its tentacles following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire the Anglo world has treated this incendiary region as their playground and an excuse to amp up international espionage and weapons research and manufacture. Mr. Gerrolymatos looks at the region with an in-depth annalist of events and the many excuses of Western intervention
This book looks at the creation of states and how it is used for increased foreign involvement in the region as each state is a satellite of a larger organization playing on power and control of the region following the chaos of the fall of the ottomans. The various espionage and wars between these new states and failed mergers and acquisitions of others is explained brilliantly as the Middle East went from a colonial era into a state neo-colonialism where many for these new states served larger states and the same clients until revolutionaries took over in certain areas.
This book goes through the top coups and many skirmishes between groups that were put forth by western intelligence agencies wishing to configure governments and leaders to their sphere of influence and manipulation. This book pretty much covers the role the United States and the declining Western powers played in helping to maintain a sense of disorder and disunity in the region so a powerful alliance and achievement could of been accomplished by these new Middle Eastern states following their freedom from colonialism 
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