The thread linking Iraq, Syria, Libya, Yemen, Afghanistan and Somalia is lack of an overarching sense of national identity. We do not want to go down that route:http://thehill.com/opinion/civil-rights/406096-us-joins-ranks-of-middle-east-with-fierce-identity-politics …
It's not impossible, it's just unreasonsble to expect. If I moved to Russia, no matter how much I appreciated their hospitality it would be unreasonable to expect me to get emotional about Catherine the Great. Or really anything about the Russian story except that they let me in.