For decades, the United States has had a reactive approach to the Middle East, scrambling to contain conflicts instigated by Iran and its proxies while ignoring the source of the region’s war and terrorism – the theocratic regime in Tehran.
Instead of confronting regime’s aggression head-on, successive American administrations have resorted to a futile policy of appeasement – epitomized by the Obama and Biden administrations’ policies of accommodation through sanctions relief and nuclear negotiations.