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A war of choice has turned into a strategic disaster for Washington.

Development aid remains the best way to reduce drug production.

The Iran war is only the latest in a string of U. S. failures.

Foreign intervention is a policy with a long history of disaster.

Months of fighting revealed that multiple countries can impose costs, but none can impose order.

Israel is resisting Donald Trump’s demands that it fall in line with his Middle East policy.

Trump’s expansion of executive power would make even Richard Nixon blush.

But continued Israeli strikes on Lebanon could derail the agreement before it takes effect.

Getting Iran to concede on key issues will be a struggle.

The president will feel criticisms from this group most keenly.

It’s complicated but not this month, most likely.

Key issues, like Iran’s nuclear program, remain unresolved.

The end of the world as we know it.

The virtues it extolled—cosmopolitanism and competition—led to its demise.