The Reality of the New Middle East
…nistration in justifying the war in Iraq was the existence of an axis of evil that threatened U. S. interests, running, improbably and crookedly, through Iraq, Iran, and North Korea. The expression was inappr…
The new Middle East is defined by three country clusters: Iran–Iraq, Lebanon–Syria, and Palestine–Israel, intertwined with issues such as nuclear proliferation and sectarianism. The U.S. faces not jus