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From the New York Times, I'm Catrin Benhold in for Sabrina Tavanese, this is the daily a recent string of attacks across the Middle east has raised concerns that the war between Hamas and Israel is spreading and might put pressure on other countries like Iran and the United States to get more involved.
Today, my colleague Eric Schmidt on the risk that the conflict is becoming an even wider war and the efforts underway to prevent that.
It's Thursday, January 11.
Eric, welcome back to the show.
Thank you very much.
From the moment that Hamas attacked Israel on October 7 and Israel responded in Gaza, the United States has been very concerned about an escalation of this war into the region.
And in the last few weeks, there have been a series of strikes and counter strikes in different parts of the Middle east and in the Red Sea.
And so I come to you, Eric, as our national security correspondent, to ask, is this the moment this conflict is turning into, that wider regional war that we've all been worrying about?
Well, Katrina, I think you're right.
This is a moment of concern.
Ever since the October 7 attacks in Israel, the Biden administration has been relentlessly focused not only on responding to that war, but specifically on how to avoid having the war widened beyond Gaza.
The president himself and his top aides feel that a wider war in this region would be an economic disaster, a security catastrophe, and would be very damaging going into an election year to have that kind of conflict running, particularly one in which it would be hard to see how it would be contained.
So from the very beginning, the president ordered the first of what became two aircraft carriers and doubled the number of american strike aircraft in the region, basically to warn off anybody else who would try and take advantage and try and widen the conflict in the region.
So let's unpack some of this.