We asked this question of the Cato Institute’s foreign policy team. Here are the answers we received. First from Cato’s vice president for defense and foreign policy studies, Chris Preble: Pulling out of the deal is a big mistake. The deal itself places meaningful and verifiable restrictions on Iran’s nuclear program, virtually ensuring that Iran […]
Will Trump End the Iran Deal?
Neocons in the Trump administration want to put an end to the Iran nuclear deal. Despite some flaws, the deal has been working. Daniel Larison reports in The American Conservative that the reason neocons dislike the deal is because it peacefully settled a dispute. The neocon crowd in Washington has been pushing war with Iran […]
Carlson vs. Bolton: War of Words over Iran, Iraq and Regime Change
After Tucker Carlson suggests to John Bolton that regime changes in Iraq and Libya have been disasters, Bolton calls Tucker’s analysis “simple minded.”
Bolton Actively Pushed War with Iran
Gareth Porter writes at The American Conservative that during his time in the Bush administration, John Bolton actively attempted to instigate military action against Iran. Porter writes: His is not merely a rhetorical stance: Bolton actively conspired during his tenure as the Bush administration’s policymaker on Iran from 2002 through 2004 to establish the political […]
Is the Islamic Revolution Failing Iran’s Rising Generation?
At The American Conservative, Pat Buchanan tells readers that with a population mostly born after Iran’s Islamic Revolution, time is not on the side of the ayatollahs. Young Iranians are looking for the same things most young people are looking for, freedom and opportunity. The Islamic Revolution hasn’t delivered either of those things and time […]
Trump Administration Opens a Channel to the Iranians with a Warning
CIA Director Mike Pompeo has opened a channel of communications with his counterpart in Iran, Major General Qassem Soleimani, with a warning that Iran would be held accountable for any attacks on American forces in Iraq by Iranian-controlled troops. This was a warning, but it was better than no dialogue at all. Perhaps it can […]
Could a War with Iran Mean Defeat for Trump in 2020?
Writing in The American Conservative, Pat Buchanan notes the disastrous electoral results that have befallen the presidents—and their parties—who have gone to war. If Trump starts a war with Iran, could that lead to his ouster in 2020? Trump complained on Twitter that we have “foolishly spent $7 trillion in the Middle East.” What then […]
Is America’s Next Big Middle East War with Iran?
Is America heading to war with Iran? If so, who would likely be our ally? At the American Conservative Pat Buchanan writes about a possible propaganda campaign to drum up support for the next big war in the middle east. A war in the Persian Gulf would send oil prices soaring and stock markets plummeting, […]
How to Prevent a War With Iran
My friend Jon Basil Utley, publisher of The American Conservative, whom I know through our associations with the Cato Institute, writes today about a report on Iran. The report, by the Cato Institute, suggests further engagement with Iran’s moderate political factions, as opposed to ramping up aggression. Jon examines the dangerous neocon backed Project for […]
A Cabinet Reshuffling for War with Iran?
Robert W. Merry writes in The American Conservative that, if the rumors are true that Donald Trump will soon eject Rex Tillerson from his post as Secretary of State, to be replaced by current CIA Director and former Congressman Mike Pompeo, and then replacing Pompeo with Junior-Neocon Sen. Tom Cotton, war with Iran may be […]
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