Retreat Dressed as Restraint: The Isolationist Right, Israel, and the Gulf

Please join Gregg Roman, Executive Director of the Middle East Forum, for a private lunch on the threat to American Middle East policy that now comes from the right. A growing faction argues that the Iran war proves the United States should stop fighting abroad, cut off allies, and leave the region to itself. It calls this restraint. Gregg will take the argument apart on three counts. For Israel, it means facing a rearming Iran with an ally that has announced it will not show up. For the Gulf states that opened their bases and airspace during the war, it means a lesson about American reliability that Beijing and Moscow will be glad to teach. And in the new Congress, it means a bloc that already votes with the far left on the amendments that matter, which the midterm has only enlarged. He will close with the case the Forum has made since its founding: adversaries must be defeated, not managed, and an America that quits the field will meet Tehran again on worse terms.

📅 Wednesday, December 16, 2026
📍Boca Raton, FL (Exact location will be provided upon registration)
🕕 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm