Over at War on The Rocks, Steven Simon, Distinguished Fellow with the Davidson Institute, is out with an opinion piece on recent developments in the Middle East.
“The bitter chalice is being concocted once again,” Simon writes. “The question is not whether Iran will be forced to drink it; presumably, they will. The question is what grows from the poisoned soil of that defeat. History’s answer, in 1988, was 35 years of mounting regional catastrophe. We should not assume the answer will be different this time simply because our airstrikes were more accurate.”
Read here.
