American neoconservatives have consistently downplayed differences among Iranian leaders and, as a consequence, ignored the impact their own words have on Iranian politics.
Justin Logan
Justin Logan is associate director of foreign policy studies at the Cato Institute.
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It’s Past Time to Bury the Hitler Analogy
Comparing foreign leaders to Adolf Hitler has long been a way of U.S. leaders to start hot wars and fan cold ones. But the Munich analogy isn’t just inaccurate, it’s dangerous.
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Spinned Surge
The job of neoconservative writers analyzing the Iraq war has largely been to obscure objective analysis and provide talking points for war supporters. Robert Kagan’s column in Sunday’s Washington Post (promptly distributed by the White House in its “Iraq Update” email early Monday) fulfills that role with aplomb. Simultaneously smearing opponents of the war (not […]