the relevant point is the co-opting of "revolutionary" movements and state structures in the mid-East by US/NATO that all but ensure the rise of pro-Western/Israeli neoliberal client states.
what? the Egyptian street isn't exactly a fan of the US, why would they care what the US thinks about the way they are going?
no streets particularly like the US. in the mid East this all but reaches consensus and with good reason. but regardless, this is little disincentive for US state planners to expand their scope of domination, and often go so far as to provide client states with an extremely limited but genuine modicum of political democracy, civil rights, etc. that can serve as a steam valve for popular discontent. Iraq is an example of this method having largely failed as it requires a permanent colonizing force of 50k, extremely expensive stuff and not duplicable on a large scale.
