Ted Galen Carpenter



Articles by Ted Galen Carpenter

The Cato Institute’s Belated, Squishy Stance on the Latest Middle East Crisis

The alarming events taking place in the Middle East are growing worse and have more than a small potential to entangle the United States in another foreign war. Hamas’s well-coordinated, surprise attack on Israel from Gaza clearly blindsided Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government. However, Israel is now responding with overwhelming force—as it has to previous, smaller-scale attacks over the decades. The bombing of civilian neighborhoods in Gaza, along with an utterly impractical order to evacuate the 1 million people living in the northern portion of the territory within little more than a day is now threatening to greatly eclipse the suffering that Hamas forces have inflicted.
Worse, the Biden administration already is making moves that could trigger a wider, regional war. The

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