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Credit Is Due Trump for Exiting His Monumental Blunder

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Donald Trump “took out over 85 percent of Iran’s defense industrial base; sank its navy; grounded its air force; damaged its centrifuges; and decimated its ballistic missile capabilities, conventional military forces and infrastructure of repression.” That’s AEI’s Marc Thiessen in the Washington Post. He was laying out some of the “13,000 differences” between what Barack Obama […]

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Donald Trump and Marco Rubio Well Overstate Iran’s Oil “Leverage”

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Last week President Trump said that the high price of oil is “a very small price to pay” for keeping nukes out of Iran. His Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, added that if Iran got a nuclear weapon, it would have more leverage to keep the Hormuz Strait closed and “make our gas prices

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By Conservative Metrics, the Iran War Is a Monumental Blunder

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“The U.S. has destroyed most of Iran’s navy and neutered what remains of it. Its air defenses no longer exist. Some large part of its ballistic missiles have been used, destroyed or damaged.” That’s from the Wall Street Journal’s excellent Barton Swaim on April 2nd, a month after bombing by the U.S. and Israel commenced. It

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No Matter Your Opinion on Iran, War Is Depression

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War symbolizes economic decline like nothing else precisely because it’s defined by the extermination of the very people who create all the growth. The sad fact that economists near unanimously contend that war has a growth upside discredits the profession like nothing else. The speculation here is that American Institute for Economic Research fellow

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The Iran Discussion Would Be Lots Improved By a Little Tolstoy

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Central planning fails, always and everywhere. Leo Tolstoy wasn’t the first to see this, but he provided readers with one of the best articulations of the previous truth in War and Peace. In it, Tolstoy rejected all the “great man” theories of war. He’d seen war up close, and knew that the natural human instinct

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