Is there a Moderate Form of Political Islam?

[Anomalocaris]

[...] and the overbearing attitude of the U.S. in forcing minor powers to explicitly chose sides using any leverage it can excert.

.. as if we are obligated to sells its highest tech to countries which may well act in ways deleterious to American interests ...

No one is obligated to not be dumb, or short sighted, or to not be blind to the long term consequence of imbuing other people with a resolve to to get even for one’s own heedless exercise of short term leverage.