U.S. Caught In Middle East Proxy War

First Read: “Talk about the United States being in a difficult place. One hour, the U.S. is conducting airstrikes to combat Sunni extremists — ISIS — in Iraq… The next hour, it’s helping aid Saudi Arabia’s bombing campaign against Shiite extremists — the Houthi rebels — in Yemen.”

“The backdrop, of course, is the clear proxy war in the Middle East between Shiite Iran and Sunni Saudi Arabia. But as the New York Times writes, one of the reasons why the United States has taken a more active role in the bombing campaign in Iraq is because it’s worried that Iran now has too much influence in the country.”