Thanks, B. I've read Goldman's book and he's right on the money IMO. Two good takeaways from this piece:
In the absence of an American leadership willing to assert American strategic interests in the region, Israel well might save the United States.
There is no reason to expect most of the Muslim countries to go quietly into irreversible decline. All-out regional war is the likely outcome sooner or later. We might as well get on with it.

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