Fareed Zakaria

It takes a kind of adversary off the field.

But I would argue that Iran had been

contained in many significant ways, particularly after the Obama nuclear deal.

Remember, no enrichment, 98% of its enriched uranium had been taken out of the country.

Israeli intelligence, American intelligence, and the International Atomic Energy Agency all said that the Iranians were following the deal.

And you had the reality that you had the most intrusive inspections regime that you had ever had in the history of nuclear tech.

So was it possible they could be cheating a little bit on the side?

It's possible.

Very, very few serious observers of it think that that was going on.

So there was a way to contain Iran without the extraordinary destruction.

But I think that what Israel has done has come at a cost.

I look at Bibi Netanyahu's long reign as prime minister, and I wonder if in the long run, what people will notice is that his legacy was to split apart the alliance between the United States and Israel.

He began by...

politicizing it in a poisonous way when Obama was president.

He went and did an end run around Obama, went and addressed Congress.

He openly fought with Obama and tried to turn the issue of Israel into a partisan issue, and then has unleashed so much firepower.

Israel is the superpower of the Middle East.

Israel is currently occupying 10% of Lebanon.

It has displaced one million people.

Right, exactly.