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Two men, two survivors. Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu – so different in backgrounds, so similar in instinct. Trump came from business. Netanyahu came from politics. Trump stormed into Washington with sheer force. Netanyahu became a master of survival in Jerusalem, navigating decades of war, diplomacy, and domestic pressure. Trump’s “America First” doctrine never promised sentiment, […]

When the abuse of inmates at Iraq’s notorious Abu Ghraib prison broke into the open in 2004, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld offered to resign. Twice. Both times President George W. Bush rejected Rumsfeld’s offer; he only fired him after the Democrats took both the House and the Senate in the 2006 mid-term elections. Secretary […]

Iran’s nuclear program is not an arms control problem, the approach often taken by US negotiators. It is a central pillar of the regime’s survival strategy. Until that regime’s architecture of power is directly addressed and sufficiently weakened, Iran’s nuclear threat will outlast any paper agreement.  Iran’s nuclear program is also not about electricity and […]