The Reality of the New Middle East
…lly unqualified. But these are long-standing, chronic situations, not new problems that require a rethinking of U.S. policy.
We have left out from this list the problem of terrorism for several reasons, altho…
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