For the first time in history, the neocons are turning to
realpolitik. When even the father of the neocon doctrine Robert Kagan says that the US doesn't 'need' Israel, you better believe him.

"American officials from the beginning regarded support for Israel as
contrary to U.S. interests. George C. Marshall opposed recognition in
1948, and Dean Acheson said that by recognizing Israel, the United
States had succeeded Britain as “the most disliked power in the Middle
East.” During the Cold War, even supporters of Israel acknowledged
that as a simple matter of “power politics,” the United States had “every
reason for wishing that Israel had never come into existence.

"Even the threat of terrorism from the region was a consequence
of American involvement, not the reason for it. Had the United
States not been deeply and consistently involved in the Muslim world
since the 1940s, Islamic militants would have little interest in
attacking an indifferent nation 5,000 miles and two oceans away.
Contrary to much mythology, they have hated us not so much
because of “who we are” but because of where we are. In Iran’s
case, the United States was deeply involved in its politics from the
1950s until the 1979 revolution, including as the main supporter of the
brutal regime of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. The surest way of
avoiding Islamist terrorist attacks would have been to get out.

"In the heyday of “America First” foreign policy during the 1920s and
’30s, when Americans did not regard even Europe and Asia as
vital interests, the idea that they had any security interests in the
greater Middle East would have struck them as hallucinatory.

Yet now, for reasons known only to the Trump administration, the
Middle East has suddenly taken top priority...

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/2026/03/trump-us-power-iran/686567/