According to Western media outlets, armed insurgents with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) seized control of Iraq's northern Nineveh Province where its second-largest city Mosul is situated. The news has dealt a new blow to the West. The repeated deadly assaults by the Pakistani Taliban on Karachi's Jinnah International Airport in recent days also served as a landmark signifying a turnaround in the Middle East landscape. The US has withdrawn troops from Iraq and announced a pullout of troops in Afghanistan by the end of 2014. Such maneuvers are critical signals for various Islamic rebel forces.

Washington has left an awful mess from its war on terror and democratic revolutions in the Middle East that no other power can take over. The Islamic world has been plunged into a rare and massive turmoil, with a turbulent Iraq after Saddam Hussein was executed. Libya has been mired in chaos since former leader Muammar al-Gaddafi died from bullet wounds.

The situation in the Middle East has exposed the limited power of the US. Washington can do nothing about it after the Bush era.

The war on terror and democratic revolutions have overthrown Islamic regimes antagonistic to the US and consequently eliminated the strategic threat of terrorist attacks based in the Middle East to the West. Increasingly intense religious and secular conflicts in Islamic countries in the recent decade have effectively constrained extremist forces and diverted their attention. Therefore, terrorist attacks have been spreading within the Middle East in recent years like cancer cells, leaving the Western world in relative tranquility.

Take the 9/11 attacks for instance. Such a deliberate conspiracy must involve large organized forces who were only capable of organizing this in a stable environment. That is entirely sabotaged by the subversion of power in Afghanistan and Iraq.

As the US is promoting its oil and gas output by a large margin and also developing shale gas, oil from the Middle East becomes of less strategic significance to it.

Hence Uncle Sam can absent himself from the anti-terror war with dampened interest in paying the huge cost for stability in the Middle East.

US interference in the Middle East has shattered its internal structure over the last few decades. Its ongoing strategic contraction in this region rife with upheaval should be somehow impeded to not only avoid the US transferring all its power to the Asia-Pacific region but also to make it continue assuming its responsibilities there.

Washington has gained enormous benefits from the Middle East, leading to its extreme political impoverishment. It is, thereby, immoral to leave amid the most difficult period for the region.

Out of its long-term interests, the US should also contribute to the stability of the Middle East.