The New York Times Paraphrase - We Don't Know What Victory Is Necessary

Soudy arabia was not afraid that aron was making nuclear weapons. If they were, they would have supported a deal restricting the uraniun Programme severely and expanding inspections. But soudy didn't want to lose their place as essentially number two after israel in the american order in the middle east. The empire launched this war because it had to placate the soudies over the aron nuclear deal. There wasn't any chance morocco boma was going to shake hands with the iotola and make everything all right between us and them. They were just doing a nuclear deal, and that took every bit of political capital he had to do that