Presidential Mideast Failures Didn't Start with Biden

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

48% : Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, Saudi Arabia
40% : The net effect of the removal of Saddam was that the Shia Muslims in Iraq gained more influence which reduced tensions between Iran and Iraq since Iran is a Shia Muslim country.
39% : It also was a mistake in Iraq to allow Shi'ites to gain so much power in the post-Saddam government (which automatically extended the influence of Iran), and it was a mistake to allow the Taliban to control the mountainous and rural areas of Afghanistan and to receive almost unlimited aid from Pakistan.
39% : While Saddam, a Sunni Muslim, was in charge of Iraq at the time, eventually, Bush would depose him, and the Shia Muslim majority in Iraq would come to power, and, because of their common religious beliefs with Iran, would have an affinity with Iran, our avowed enemy.
33% : Long before George Bush, it was a mistake for the Reagan administration to have taken sides against Iran in the Iraq-Iran war.

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