Pompeo’s Cynical Attack on the Nuclear Deal

Originally appeared at The American Conservative.The Trump administration has been desperately trying to kill the nuclear deal for the last two years after reneging on it. Now they will try to kill it by pretending to be part of it again:Secretary of State Mike Pompeo...

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Iran Is Not Ours to ‘Steer’

Originally appeared at The American Conservative.The Edelman/Takeyh article on Iran had so many bad ideas in it that it will take a second post to respond properly to some of the rest. One of the sillier claims that they make is that regime collapse won’t cause...

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Regime Change Is Wrong

Originally appeared at The American Conservative.Eric Edeleman and Ray Takeyh dispense with the usual hawkish smokescreens and evasions and call for regime change in Iran:“Regime change” is a toxic phrase in Washington. It conjures up images of the Iraq...

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