The US and Israeli war with Iran should remind us all that the US often seems to be a modern day Gulliver wandering around in a region it often fails to understand; tied up by powers large and small whose interests are frequently not its own, and burdened by its own illusions. What are US interests in the Middle East and how can America best protect them?

Join Aaron David Miller, veteran State Department Middle East analyst, adviser, negotiator in Republican and Democratic Administrations, in conversation.

Aaron David Miller is a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, focusing on U.S. foreign policy. He has written five books, including his most recent, The End of Greatness: Why America Can’t Have (and Doesn’t Want) Another Great President (Palgrave, 2014) and The Much Too Promised Land: America’s Elusive Search for Arab-Israeli Peace (Bantam, 2008), and hosts Carnegie Connects, Carnegie’s premier live podcast.