Thinkers tend to view the international crisis we are living through as, above all, a moral catastrophe. Not a political, economic, or military one, but a moral one. So instead of delving into causes, consequences, and strategic calculations, some echo Ahmad Shawqi's famous verse: "Nations endure only as long as their morals endure."
Can global crises really have rhyme and meter, so that they can be resolved with a line of poetry? Sometimes, yes.
That does not mean we do not also need millions of ideas, facts, and questions to study such manifestations of human decline. But if you want the simplest explanation, it is this: morality. Violating another country's security, safety, and sovereignty is aggression. Launching an unprovoked attack against neighboring states and peoples is blatant aggression. Persisting in such blatant aggression is a blatant moral failure.
Since Iran began launching missiles and drones, the Gulf states, along with Jordan, have tried to look at the other side of the picture, keep every avenue for de-escalation open, and understand by what political logic the United States bombs Iran, only for Iran to respond by targeting Kuwait's electricity, Bahrain's water supply, and Jordan's sovereignty. This war has no rules and no conventions.
Iran has disrupted everyday life in countries that maintain friendly relations with it, undermined the rules governing global shipping and transportation, and reduced every law to the logic of Saada, offering reassurance only to those who still place their trust in pledges and agreements.
Even calling on the Prince of Poets is of no help in the face of such a complete distortion of the law. The images coming from the Houthis depict jungles of rifles and weapons carried from one era to the next. Only the victim never changes: Yemen.
