Gaza, however, is but one part of a much larger conflict. In December, the Israeli defense minister Yoav Gallant referred to the war with Iran taking place on seven fronts—the others being Lebanon, Syria, Judea and Samaria, Iraq, Yemen, and Iran. Seen from this perspective, it might be better to speak of a confrontation between Washington and Tehran, one which the former appears reluctant to want to acknowledge. The editors of the Washington Free Beacon write:
If the Biden administration has articulated one goal since Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israel, it is to prevent the outbreak of a broader regional war. . . . As with so many of this administration’s foreign-policy initiatives, Iran had other ideas.
As Eli Lake details, the U.S.-Iran conflict has been going on for years, and claimed the lives of over 600 American servicemen in Iraq, and recently those of two navy SEALs in the Indian Ocean. The Free Beacon continues:
Any actual clear-eyed analysis would start and end with Iran, which has been waging a proxy war against the United States for decades. That includes during Barack Obama’s nuclear deal, when Iran took the pallets of cash it received and poured the money into its terror proxies throughout the Middle East. Now, as Iran wages a regional war, the Biden administration’s responses in Iraq and Yemen have been limited to the appendages of the Iranian hydra. To stem this conflict and prevent it from growing further, we must attack it straight on.
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