I did not know that we have 14 new bases in the region, that does mean I was wrong..................do some reading and learn more.
http://www.veteransforpeace.org/Real_American_Agenda_050403.htm
America is redrawing the military map of the region with amazing alacrity. It has pulled its bases out of Saudi Arabia and Turkey in favor of less-demanding hosts.
Its relations with Egypt have been placed on the back burner.
It is no accident that those three nations are the region's more populous. And that America's newest partners — Qatar, Bahrain, Oman and the United Arab Emirates — are thinly populated and tightly controlled monarchies. …………………………………………………………….
America now has a vise grip on the region, with 14 new post-9/11 bases, from eastern Europe through Iraq, the Persian Gulf, Pakistan and Afghanistan to the two Central Asian republics of Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan.