During the past two years, Iran and Israel have traded missile and air strikes three times, and by now, war between them is old news. War between Iran and the Gulf Arab states of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, and the United Arab Emirates, however, is something new. According to reports, Iran fired missiles at all of them this morning. This video appears to show an attack on Juffair, the area of Bahrain that hosts the U.S. Navy's Fifth Fleet. Similar attacks were reported in the other countries, all of which host American bases or other strategic interests. All these countries, with the possible exception of the U.A.E., have been at various times torn about whether to treat Iran like a bad neighbor who must be tolerated, or a bad neighbor whose house needs to be burned down with the neighbor in it. This morning, after the attacks, Saudi Arabia's foreign ministry issued a statement condemning Iran's 'cowardly' attacks, and noting that the attacks had come even though Saudi...
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