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.
