If you were them would you turn towards the west? The west is looking towards the east & the east doesn't like or trust the look in their eye. So far we've provided a road map from a "drunk that couldn't navigate himself past a barroom door" (a line from Ewan McColl). As a region, if push comes to shove the Middle East while bond together & bach each other when the situtation becomes impossible. Bring on the crusaders, again.
Barry