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From the Gulf War to Gaza, a compelling critique of how and why Washington has become so destructively embroiled in the Middle East. After Hamas's horrific attack on Israel in 2023, the United States stood firmly by Israel's near-annihilatory war on Gaza, despite widespread moral outrage and severe damage to Washington's global agenda. But Gaza is only the latest irony in thirty-five years of Middle East politics. How ​​did this pattern emerge? Why cannot decision-makers learn from repeated disasters in the Middle East? And what does the destruction of Gaza mean for America’s standing in the world? Mark Lynch traces the disastrously failed American approach to the Middle East post-Cold War, in which US aspirations to lead the region and achieve calm resulted only in war, instability, and humanitarian disasters. Lynch reveals the failure of every president's efforts to transform the Middle East into America's image, or to move away from the region. Washington refused to take the opinions of the people of the Middle East seriously; Its illusion is to form a regional system “without” the Palestinian issue. This insightful narrative moves between American policy and Middle Eastern realities, and explains why American policy has not changed despite its horrific human costs, from Iraq, Lebanon, and Syria to Iran, Yemen, and Libya.