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The article attempts to explain the conflict in the Middle East. No situation today is more complex, none illustrates better the multiform tensions between the powers and the obstacles that block understanding. French-British rivalry forms the big-power background to all the unrest in the Levant and conditions every statement made by any official of either country. British-French rivalry and Arab nationalism are the main ingredients of the struggle for power that has, centered in Syria. They are not the only ones. Less visible but never to be ignored is the growing influence of Great Britain. Its interest in the Middle East is far more immediate than that of the U.S.

The article focuses on the incident in which the U.S. Senate awarded U.S. President George Bush a vague set of plenary powers over the people of the Middle East, with only three dissenting votes on October 2, 1990. Hundreds of thousands of soldiers have been lent to the Saudi royal house with no penny-pinching in the accounting. There are deadly, lucrative duels between the Public relations firms of rival princes. It describes about the U.S. intervention in the Iran and Iraq in the name of national security.