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Tom Cotton signals big shift on Iran talks

The GOP senator may now be open to accepting a civilian nuclear program

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Washington Politics

For old guard & neocons, Colby is an 'America First' bridge too far

They call Trump's DoD undersecretary pick 'dovish' and 'isolationist' when what they really mean is that he's a threat

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Washington Politics

First lethal blows, but still no unified call for war in Congress

In fact, a resistance to hawkish claims that Biden must bomb Iran is forming on both sides of the aisle

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Washington Politics

Beware the 'America First' foreign policy phonies

Right now it's fashionable to talk about national interests and even restraint, but with these folks, how much of it is sincere?

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Washington Politics

Cotton picks fight with legacies of Washington and John Q. Adams

The senator alternately dismisses and then tries to co-opt early foreign policy traditions to mask his tired interventionism.

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Asia-Pacific

Hawks up the ante: China is now a nuclear threat, too

What's clear from their overheated rhetoric is they desperately want there to be an arms race. To what end, we can only imagine.