Send us Fan Mail Power can change a map overnight, but people live with the aftermath for generations. We take a hard look at four decades of American choices in the Middle East—across Iraq, Libya, Egypt, and Iran—and ask whether our interventions, sold as moral necessities, actually produced stability or planted chaos. Rather than re-litigate talking points, we practice moral accounting: if you topple a government, you own the aftermath. That means measuring foreseeable harms, funding recons...