US goals in the Middle East

"It would be easy to be talked into the idea that this time they do -- if you primarily talked to Saudi and Emirati royals. But Washington would do well to reflect upon the risks of relying so heavily upon the counter-revolutionary, anti-democratic autocrats of Saudi Arabia and the UAE to pay for or deliver a democratic Syria. Riyadh and Abu Dhabi just played a leading role in supporting the military coup in Egypt which destroyed the political process Washington had worked so hard for years to support. Their intervention in Bahrain proved devastating to the early U.S. efforts to support Arab democratic transitions. They may want the U.S. military to act badly enough to pay for it, but that doesn't mean that they share American interests in a negotiated settlement or its aspirations for the region."  I agree with the above but: 1) the US does not want a "political process" in Egypt.  It merely wants Mubarak back, and if that is not possible, Sadat from the grave; 2) The US does not have interest in a negotiated settlement in Syria (and has foiled it at every corner, and its aspirations for the region are squarely opposed to aspirations of Arab people maybe because US aspirations emanate from Likud party program.