Congressman DeFazio correctly labeled the Middle East a "snake pit." We pledged about $35 billion to Israel and yet were called unsupportive. Can we change that pledge?
This holiday families across this nation were able to sit with their children and spouses who, while in the military, nevertheless were not killed in some Middle East Conflict. When Obama took office, we had weekly televised recognition of dead American soldiers, killed in Iraq, in a war started on a lie.
I think we have too much involvement in the Middle East. That "connection" is based on our religious connection to the area. The area, and us by  that connection, is fighting a religious war made that much more important with the amount of oil in the area and our unwillingness to escape oil addiction, a problem noted by the last 6 Presidents.
Yes, the Middle East is a mess. But it's not worth American lives to continue to 
fail - for decades - attempting to fix it.