For the uninitiated one might reasonably think, that the United States doesn’t really need any military bases in the Middle East, but when a nation insists upon being the world’s policeman, military bases become a necessity in order to get to strategic places and to be prepared to wreak havoc should the occasion so arise, which is why America has military bases all over the Middle East, of which, no other nation, has the quantity of foreign military bases that America has.
It wasn’t always that way, and a strong argument could and should be made, this doesn’t need to be as it is today, for logic would dictate to us, that the nations that should deal with the Middle East should be those that are in close proximity to such, as opposed to the United States, which is located far away, but this is not the way that it has worked out since the end of World War II. Rather, European nations that used to assert themselves in the Middle East were only too happy to cede such control to the United States, which is why America has bases in Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates.
This thus signifies that it is the United States which has the responsibility of dealing with trouble in the Middle East, of which, there is always going to be trouble, which thereby makes America a target for terrorism by those that resent the fact that the United States has a presence in their sovereign nation, which can be constant source of irritation for the denizens of these countries, especially when America insists upon impressing its desires upon those nations, which signifies that those that live in certain Middle Eastern nations have a legitimate right to be resentful of the United States military having a base, or multiple bases within their country.
Another sore point is that it seems that once America arrives and plants its flag in a particular Middle Eastern country, that America has made up its mind that it isn’t going to leave, come hell or high water. After all, in consideration that America is the preeminent military power in the world, those who might desire to see less of an American military presence in their nation don’t have a lot of leverage to actually do anything of substance that would ever force that issue.
This means that America isn’t going to leave the Middle East until it's good and ready to, which essentially means that America is never going to leave. That might be okay if by having military bases, America were able to thereby bring a more secure and a more stable Middle East, but that hasn’t happened yet, and since that is the case, it’s fair to state that it’s never going to happen. Instead, because the Middle East seems to be on edge, constantly, America must be ever on alert, for it is America that ultimately has the responsibility to keep this potential powder keg from blowing up, which is always going to be a difficult task in even the best of circumstances.