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What next? The war is not going well. Already, there are loud whispers that President Donald Trump may be forced to accept a deal that is not much better than the one former President Barack Obama made with Iran, which Trump tore up in his first term, leading to the nuclear development that underlies the current crisis. Trump can call it ...Read more

I've been playing in the public arenas of politics and commentary, of columns and television and campaigns, for long enough not to pretend that it was all warm and fuzzy back then. It was mean and sometimes scary. But mostly not. Even during the "hottest" times, we mostly managed to separate the professional from the personal. We disagreed; we...Read more

Usually, when you're talking about winning a war, it helps to know what you were fighting for. What was the goal of the war? If you don't know that, how do you know the difference between winning and walking away?

In a way, the Trump administration has made it easy on itself. Since they haven't managed to explain what we're doing plunging the...Read more