The American Conservative
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Frida Ghitis : The Middle East regularly sucks oxygen out of the Beltway , despite its limited importance to U.S. national security.
She says after Hamas terror attack and Israeli response in Gaza , all other foreign policy issues have taken a back seat.
Ghitis says the administration dropped Ukraine like a hot rock after the Middle East erupted.
She asks: No American interests are served by our current posture in the region.
David Rothkopf : U.S. partners in the Middle East absorb arms, attention, and diplomatic cover.
He says it's impossible to justify the amount of attention paid to the region on the basis of the region's material importance to the United States .
The region comprises 3.2 percent of world GDP, less than 7 percent of population, and no state in the region can project power outside the region.
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