Drumbeat Grows for US Troops in Middle East War

It was a grand illusion, one that had taken root in the minds of the U.S. administration’s decision-makers.

The plan ignores the root cause of the region’s decades-old conflict, which is the unresolved Palestinian question.

[W]hat is to stop Iran from actually embarking on a nuclear weapons program, since it is already being subjected to these sanctions?

Middle Eastern countries, disregarding the influence of the U.S., which thinks little of international order, are eyeing a move to a framework to independently ensure their own national security.