For Spotlight, François Picard is pleased to welcome Sir Peter Westmacott, distinguished ambassadorial fellow with the Atlantic Council’s Europe Center and former British Ambassador to Turkey, France and the US. As a senior British diplomat, he approaches the current crisis with both concern and analytical caution. What we are witnessing in the Middle East is not a clearly articulated strategic intervention. The imperative now, as he views it, is to identify a viable diplomatic “off-ramp” before the consequences deepen further for regional and global stability.