It’s a moment in history, not an inviolable truth, which is what the comment I’m replying to implies. The West went through the same horrors closely enough in time that some people are still alive to tell the story. And the US has no lesson to teach people in the middle East. In less than 300 years of history, they’ve been at peace for less than 20 years. And they’ve been in 100+ conflicts according to Wikipedia. Other imperial powers in the West and elsewhere have comparable track records.
The region would be more stable if it wasn’t for imperialists. They made the bed for various extremist groups, and the middle East is paying the price.
The situation is comparable to someone lighting a fire and saying that the house was always on fire.