I think this will largely fix itself over time. The reason is that the U.S. no longer needs the Middle East for oil. The price of oil has gone and stayed high enough that extraction from oil shale is now economical, and most of the majors are going that route. Which country has the largest oil shale reserves? The U.S, with total oil reserves roughly 3x greater than Saudi Arabia. We simply don't need the Middle East any more - I think that over the next couple years you'll see a complete U.S. pull-out from the region, and we'll leave them to their traditional customs and autocratic rulers.

Source: my sister's a petroleum geologist. When she was training in the mid-00s, all the attention was on light, sweet crude from Venezuela or Saudi Arabia. Now, virtually everything she does is fracking in Colorado or Wyoming, or work with the Athabasca tar sands.