Well the UK and America have always had a large stake in the Middle East region, i think you'll agree, a lot of vital resources and commodities are traded at favourable prices for the West, (by AngloAmerican industrialist's financially and technologically supporting Authoritarian, Oligarchic regimes, (Saudia Arabia, Bahrain, Jordan etc) which keep wages low, worker's rights minimal, and class oppression firmly enforced with brutal military repression, for around 100 years Western industrial development has been dependent on the Military oppression of Middle Eastern people by Regimes favourable to Anglo American interests.
Julian Amery:
"The prosperity of our[anglo-american] people rests really on the oil in the Persian Gulf, the rubber and tin of Malaya, and the gold, copper and precious metals of South- and Central Africa. As long as we have access to these; as long as we can realize the investments we have there; as long as we trade with this part of the world, we shall be prosperous. If the communists were to take them over, we would lose the lot. Governments like Colonel Nasser's in Egypt are just as dangerous."
We in the UK and America have it alot better than the people of Malaya, South and Central Africa, the people of Saudi Arabia, the UAE, etc etc, I think you'll agree, that is the prosperity I'm talking about, the prosperity from 100 or so years of unfettered industrial development, at the expense of Eurasian Oil, African Resources, Asian tin, rubber, cotton etc etc and the people who work in the countries that produce them.