Bangladesh, May 8 -- The most dangerous wars are not always those launched with overwhelming force. Sometimes, the gravest risks emerge when immense military power is paired with strategic confusion, emotional decision-making, and contradictory political messaging. That is precisely the image the United States is projecting in the current confrontation with Iran.

The world is witnessing an extraordinary paradox: the planets most powerful military power appears unable to articulate a coherent endgame for the Middle East conflict it has helped intensify. Washingtons military deployments are massive, its rhetoric uncompromising, and its threats escalating by the day. Yet beneath the spectacle lies an unmistakable absence of strategic clarit...