In a 2022 televised interview, Naftali Bennett, then Prime Minister of Israel, challenged his interviewer, Christiane Amanpour, CNN’s chief international anchor, with a pointed observation: “There you go again, starting the story in the middle.”

The remark captured more than a moment of frustration. It exposed a structural habit in contemporary media and policy discourse: the tendency to isolate events from the chain of actions that produced them. What appears as a sudden crisis is often the visible tip of a long, unfolding process.

That same habit resurfaced in the resignation of Joe Kent, a senior U.S. counterterrorism official, who justified his departure by stating that “Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation.” At first glance, the statement seems cautious, even responsible. But it rests on a narrow and........

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