Does Washington Want to Lose Little or Bigly in the Mideast?
(WorldNews Iran)

Sir Winston Churchill once quipped that, `Americans will always do the right thing, only after they have tried everything else.` Unfortunately, in the Middle East, doing the right thing is often the wrong thing to do for the national interest. Since 1945, the United States has vacillated between propping up savage dictatorships in the region (in order to ensure the flow of oil and to prevent the spread of Communism in the Cold War) to targeting such dictatorships for destruction. The reason the Mideast has preoccupied policymakers in Washington is due to the presence of oil in the region. What´s more, the fact that the Middle East serves as the connective tissue linking Europe to Asia, as...