The Myth of America’s Middle East Malfeasance
The region’s rulers have not been hapless pawns.
June 4, 2018
The Myth of America’s Middle East Malfeasance
The region’s rulers have not been hapless pawns.
According to a pervasive academic narrative, many journalists, and the rhetoric of the Obama administration, the woes of the Middle East since World War II have been shaped by wrongheaded and even disastrous American meddling. George Simpson, Jr. argues that this is all wrong, bringing evidence from the U.S. role in the creation of Israel, the 1953 Iranian coup that overthrew Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh, and the Six-Day War:
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