How to Blow Up the Middle East War in Five Easy Steps

Article author: 
Victor Davis Hanson
Article publisher: 
Townhall
Article date: 
9 September 2024
Article category: 
Our American Future
Medium
Article Body: 

When Joe Biden became president, the Middle East was calm. Now it is in the midst of a multifront war...

In a word, theocratic Iran -- the nexus of almost all current Middle East terrorism and conflict -- was unleashed by Team Biden after having been neutered by the Trump administration.

The Biden-Harris administration adopted a five-step revisionist protocol that appeased and encouraged Iran...

Second, Biden-Harris nihilistically killed off the Trump administration's "Abraham Accords."... a successful blueprint for moderate Arab nations to seek detente with Israel, ending decades of hostilities to unite against the common Middle East threat of Iran.

Third, Biden begged Iran to reenter the appeasing, so-called Iran Deal that virtually had ensured that Iran would eventually get the bomb...

Biden-Harris also fled abruptly from Afghanistan, abandoning billions in weapons...

... Biden-Harris began pressuring the Israelis to act "proportionally" in responding to the massacre of some 1,200 Israelis and nearly 20,000 missiles, rockets, and drones launched at their homeland from Iran, the Houthis, Hamas, and Hezbollah...

In part, the [Biden-Harris] administration naively tried to resurrect the old, discredited Obama administration notion of "creative tension" -- of empowering a rogue Iran and its terrorists to play off Israel and the moderate Arab regimes...

... The two bought into the anti-Americanism and anti-Israel boilerplate of our enemies...

Their malignant legacy is the current Middle East disaster.