What American officials want is stability, not democracy, and by “stability” I mean the continuation and, when possible, expansion of Saudi, Israeli, and Egyptian power in the Middle East

American military action against Iran raises the specter of a wider regional war

Moral posturing by the United States and its allies fall on deaf ears in the Middle East

The American bombing campaign has no standing in international law whatever. Just because one country has broken international law, it does not follow that other countries have a right to attack it