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policymakers must now ponder Lenin’s immortal conjecture: who is to blame and what is to be done? Who is to blame? The simplest answer is the recent spike in violence in the Middle East is the fault of the usual suspects: terrorist organizations, such as Hamas, Hezbollah, and their affiliates, all supported by the mullahs in Tehran, a regime whose longstanding public goal is the destruction of the. [...] This is an existential concern that the United States cannot afford to ignore, regardless of what is happening in the Indo-Pacific. [...] The longer answer is the more complex one and involves the primary determinants of U. [...] strength, or what we used to call “the arsenal of democracy.” If the United States wants a real “pivot” to the Indo-Pacific, it needs to urgently re-build its industrial defense base that has atrophied after the “peace dividend” of the Cold War. [...] Bush Institute.) Editor’s Note: The views expressed in this publication are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the policy or the position of the Prospect Foundation.