Pakistan, May 9 -- There is a particular kind of clarity that comes from watching a superpower bluster. From where we stand in Pakistan, a nation that has lived under the long, unpredictable shadow of American foreign policy for decades, the current confrontation between Washington and Tehran carries a familiar and deeply instructive weight. We have seen this script before. We know how it is written, and more importantly, we are beginning to understand how it ends. Donald Trump's renewed aggression towards Iran, and the spectre of crisis looming over the Strait of Hormuz, is not simply a bilateral conflict between two adversarial states. It is a stress test of American imperial power itself and the results, for those willing to read them ...