Many people are thinking past simplistic headlines, and about the human beings living in the places on the map we’re being told it’s OK to blow apart.

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NYT: Political Losses Deepen the Stakes as Trump Contemplates Renewed Iran Attack

New York Times (11/5/26)

Many people, including “liberals,” have accepted that there is no such thing as hypocrisy when it comes to US actions in other countries. What we call “universal” principles just apply differently to different people! And “we’re good, they’re bad” is a legitimate overarching idea for foreign policy—that thinking people must accept and internalize and propagate.

The midterm elections, and all the years of work leading up to them—because this wasn’t a flash in the pan—tell us that many people are thinking past simplistic headlines, and are thinking about the human beings living in the places on the map we’re being told it’s OK to blow apart.

We’ll talk about Iran with Sina Toossi, senior nonresident fellow at the Center for International Policy.

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