The next few years may see the US facing hostility and frustration from people in the Middle East, Scott Bennett, a former US Army psychological warfare officer and State Department counter-terrorism analyst, told Sputnik.
Washington is bracing for a possible new war in the Middle East, a scenario that is “dangerous” for US President Joe Biden’s “re-election chances,” Politico reports, citing unnamed sources.They argued that White House officials are pondering the US response to what they fear could expand from the current war in Gaza into “a broader, protracted regional conflict.”The US now faces further deterioration across the Middle East: the terrorist attack in [Iran’s] Kerman, the ongoing Houthi attacks in the Red Sea, the strikes in Lebanese Beirut and other threats to increase tensions in the region,” Bennett said.Bennett added that over the past 20 years the US “has substituted diplomacy for military interventionism, and as a result, offended and ostracized the majority, if not the totality of the Middle Eastern peoples, nations, and cultures.
