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On Wednesday, commentators and media figures praised Iran’s restraint and suggested Tehran had provided the president with a way to deescalate the conflict if he so chose, but this is a myopic and unfair assessment of how the Trump White House managed this crisis. This administration didn’t accidentally stumble its way into a textbook strategy for defusing a cascading spiral of violence against a revisionist adversary. It’s too soon to say if Iran is once again deterred, but there is reason to be cautiously optimistic. If there is any credit to be doled out at this early stage, it’s the Trump administration, not the Mullahs, who deserve it.

(...)He was a military commander. Military commanders have plans to kill their enemies. And the United States is Iran’s enemy, reneging on the nuclear agreement and choking its economy, impoverishing and immiserating civilians who have nothing to do with, and no say in, their government’s policy.

Is Iran a brutal, murderous, repressive regime that tramples the rights of women and minorities? No doubt. But so is Saudi Arabia, and we have managed to work with that regime. Iran is just as critical to the long-term stability of the region.

Forty years is a long time for the United States to be without a diplomatic presence in a country, and Iran bears the blame for severing those relations. But the dangerous, disproportionate assassination of General Suleimani may have shut the diplomatic door for many more decades.

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And Iran is the United States' enemy, reneging on the nuclear agreement and supporting global terrorism, impoverishing and immiserating civilians who have nothing to do with, and no say in, their government’s policy.

It's because she doesn't see Soleimani as a bad guy, but as a hero that should be held up as a shining beacon of hope that makes her a sympathizer.

Objective analysis shouldn't be equated with sympathy.

Beginning to look like we might have war crimes going on here..... tRump has successfully made the USA look like villains and Iran victims. Way to go asshole!

Why do you guys on the left love terrorists so much?

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NYT's Paul Krugman Says Hacker Downloaded 'Child Pornography' Using His IP Address

Think the NYT will fire him?

They even have a term for it: Kompromat

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Interestingly, the Iranians see it differently. The USA is Iran's enemy, reneging on the nuclear agreement and supporting the Saudi regime, impoverishing and immiserating Iranians who have nothing to do with, and no say in, their government’s policy by isolating the country and sanctioning the life out of it. Gee, who'd've thought???

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It's because she doesn't see Soleimani as a bad guy, but as a hero that should be held up as a shining beacon of hope that makes her a sympathizer.

You're seriously wrong here; she's not saying that at all. She's explaining why Iranians think of him that way. See, they look at it the opposite of the way we do. They see him as a martyred hero. That's not Brooks's fault.

Trump is a military commander.

He's Commander in Chief..