America¿s Middle East - The Ruination of a Region

From the Gulf War to Gaza, a compelling analysis of how and why Washington ensnared itself in the Middle East, benefiting no one.

After Hamas- shocking attack on 7 October 2023, the United States stood firmly behind Israel-s near- genocidal war on Gaza and escalating conflicts with Lebanon and Iran-despite international and domestic moral outrage, and significant damage to its broader global agenda. How and why has Gaza become only the latest such paradox in thirty-five years of Middle East policy? What does its destruction mean for America-s place in the world?

America-s Middle East charts the United States- disastrously failed approach to the Middle East since the end of the Cold War, as aspirations for US leadership in a calm region have instead produced political instability, armed conflict and humanitarian catastrophe. Marc Lynch exposes policymakers- refusal to learn from repeated calamities; the failure of each president-s efforts to tr