Tag: Middle East

For the rest of the world, the cheque’s consequences have three faces: the good, the bad, and the ugly.

[T]he Saudis’ fate presents painful lessons for Europe.

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.

It will take a long time for the old order to be replaced; the U.S. will not vanish overnight.

Military force can destroy a hostile regime, but it cannot create a stable political order.

In the end, the U.S. will probably have made the entire Middle East even more unstable than it already was.

The Iranian axis, so to speak, is working to curb American influence — not to prove that the Shia are right or the Sunnis are wrong.

The United States did not simply stumble into a trap in the Middle East; it deliberately walked into one.