It might sound self-centric and limited, but giving it a second thought, I think it's also true - because the "events in Middle East" are important only as much as they threaten to spin out of control and lead to the collapse of technological civilization. There are no important technological advances coming out of this conflict. It's unlikely that the existence of ISIS will lead to an important new political insight, a piece of social technology being developed. It's just, like often in history, a case of groups of humans failing to get along very well with each other.

This is how I see war, nowadays. A stupid, useless distraction. "We're building amazing things here for everyone with our technological civilization, so would you kindly please pause for the moment, and don't ruin everything because of some idiotic dispute?".