Hawks Try and Fail to Make the War in Gaza All About Iran
Iran hawks are desperate to make the war in Gaza as much about Iran as possible in order to distract from the failure of their preferred policies.
Walter Russell Mead spins another fantasy:
The picture has been clear for some time to those not hypnotized by the condescending Iran apologists who lulled a generation of credulous Democratic foreign-policy officials into seeing Tehran as a possible American partner. Iran’s rulers, believing that controlling the Middle East’s energy resources and religious sites would make the country a world power, want to establish themselves as the dominant force in the region.
Iran hawks are desperate to make the war in Gaza as much about Iran as possible in order to distract from the failure of their preferred policies. Having been among the loudest cheerleaders for normalization agreements between Israel and various Arab states because they hoped they would lay the foundations for an anti-Iranian bloc, Iran hawks want to con Americans into supporting an even more hostile policy towards Iran now that the push for normalization with the Saudis has stalled and a new war has broken out in Gaza. As reflexive U.S. support for Israel begins to look more and more like a dangerous liability, they need to change the subject to the supposed Iranian menace that they have exaggerated all along.