THEAMERICANCONSERVATIVE (Andrew Day) - How Trump Can Break the Iran Logjam
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Foreign Affairs Foreign Affairs How Trump Can Break the Iran Logjam The president should boldly initiate a “peace race” with Tehran. Photo by ATTA KENARE / AFP via Getty Images Time to face an uncomfortable truth: America lost the Iran War. It’s a development not only discomfiting but world-historical, marking the pitiful conclusion of American primacy and the “U.S.-led international order.” President Donald Trump is in a bind. Escalating the war in hopes of changing the outcome would worsen its deleterious effects and almost certainly fail to force Iranian capitulation. But reaching a peace agreement is difficult, thanks to a near-total absence of Iranian trust in any commitments that Trump might make. The solution to Trump’s…Open