The president should boldly initiate a “peace race” with Tehran. The post How Trump Can Break the Iran Logjam appeared first on The American Conservative .
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…Open
President Donald J. Trump highlighted a surprising shift in the late Senator Lindsey Graham's approach to foreign policy during his final weeks, contrasting his hawkish reputation with calls for diplomacy.
President Donald J. Trump said the late Senator Lindsey Graham adopted a surprising shift on foreign policy during his final weeks, calling for diplomacy. PULSE POINTS WHAT HAPPENED: President Donald J. Trump said late Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC), whose funeral was held on Tuesday, privately shifted his stance on Iran in the weeks before his death, and that the longtime foreign policy hawk urged pursuing a negotiated settlement rather than continued military action. DETAIL: Graham, who died suddenly on July 11 at age 71, had long been one of the Senate’s strongest advocates for military intervention abroad, including support for action against Iran and continued U.S. backing for Ukraine in its war against Russia. Trump said…Open
Israel pursues its own interests; can America? The post The American ‘Passionate Attachment’ to Israel appeared first on The American Conservative .
Foreign Affairs The American ‘Passionate Attachment’ to Israel Israel pursues its own interests; can America? (Photo by JASON REDMOND/AFP via Getty Images) President George Washington warned in his timeless Farewell Address: A passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils. Sympathy for the favorite nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest in cases where no real common interest exists, and infusing into one the enmities of the other, betrays the former into a participation in the quarrels and wars of the latter without adequate inducement or justification. It…Open
While the war in Iran rages on, Batya Ungar-Sargon says it’s been America’s allies in the Middle East who have come to our aid rather than NATO allies in Europe.
