The Gulf Is Becoming Uninsurable |
BERLIN – It can take generations to build a reputation for reliability – and a matter of weeks to destroy it. That asymmetry is the most important strategic fact of the current US-Israeli war against Iran. This conflict’s most harmful consequence will figure in no damage assessment, and no postwar reconstruction fund will be able to repair it. What is being degraded is the premise that the Gulf is a reliable place to conduct the world’s business.