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Old Iraq war architects rise up to wag finger at Trump's Iran deal
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Old Iraq war architects rise up to wag finger at Trump's Iran deal

Who asked for Doug Feith's opinion anyway?

Trump and Lindsey Graham
Middle East

Trump: When the only friends you have left are Bushies and neocons

The warmaking president is shedding his base. But the last ones on the MAGA bus may be the first to leap off at any sign of political trouble.

Vatican
Middle East

On war, Trump must remember the wisdom of St. Augustine

The 'just war' theologian understood that force must be governed by prudence, reckoning with second and third order effects. We didn't do that in Iraq, or now

Bob Kagan David Frum Bill Kristol
QiOSK

Bob Kagan leads neocons changing their spots over Trump's war

These guys cut their teeth on dogmatic support for US primacy and foreign intervention to pursue regime change goals. What happened?

Powell
Middle East

Like Iraq, key intelligence before Iran strikes was ignored

This fits a familiar pattern: information is welcomed when it licenses action, sidelined when it constrains it

Trump, George w. Bush, Bill Clinton
Washington Politics

All aboard America's strategic blunder train. Next stop: Iran

Our stumbling into war with Tehran would be the latest in a self-inflicted 30-year road to nowhere