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Reuters The Central Question: Is It 1938?
If today's world resembles Europe on the eve of invasion, carnage, and the Holocaust, then Netanyahu's warnings are prudent and wise. But what if the analogy is wrong?
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Reuters The Mystery of the Netanyahu Disaster, and a Possible Explanation
At face value, this speech makes no sense. But there may be a deeper logic to the Israeli prime minister's determination to speak to Congress.
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Rick Wilking/Reuters The 'Existential' Chronicles Go On
"The most frustrating part of watching this debate unfold is how many people don't seem to get the elementary fact that stopping Iran from getting nuclear weapons is impossible. What is possible is discouraging them from wanting to get them or wanting to use them."
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On 'Existential' Threats
A word that has replaced thought
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Reuters Reader Pushback on Netanyahu, Iran, and the Speech
"There is not a single column you write that I agree with," and other views from the readership.
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Reuters 'Anti-Israel, or Anti-American?'
Questions of "divided loyalty" have been among the nastiest in discussions of foreign policy. A reader says we're asking the wrong questions about the Netanyahu imbroglio.
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Reuters The Case for Democrats Skipping the Netanyahu Speech
Why should they willingly serve as GOP-Likud campaign props?
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Reuters The Netanyahu Speech Drama Goes On
The prime minister doubles down, making a bad initial calculation worse.
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Reuters Netanyahu, Roberts, and the Norms on Which Governing Depends
A nation can't possibly come up with rules to outlaw every form of misbehavior. It relies on norms to guide behavior—which is why some current violations of those norms deserve attention.
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Reuters/The Atlantic Let Netanyahu Make His Case, Then Consider Why He's Wrong
The Israeli prime minister argues that the world of 2015 is fundamentally similar to that of 1938. Americans can give him a hearing, and then pursue a more reasonable policy based on less far-fetched comparisons.
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Reuters Would a U.S. Strike Against Iran Actually Work?
Please read Jeffrey Goldberg's new analysis of the split between Benjamin Netanyahu and Barack Obama. Then please read a decade-old article about what a "preemptive" strike against Iran would really entail.
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Friday Mid-Day Reader: Iran, Etc.
The substance and the politics of several ensnarled issues.
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Iran Sanctions Update: Have Senators Actually Read This Bill?
Sen. Dianne Feinstein: "We cannot let Israel determine when and where the United States goes to war."
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Reuters The Iran Vote: This Really Matters, and You Should Let Your Senators Know
If the nuclear deal is going to fail, let that happen at the negotiating table—and not be engineered under the Capitol dome.
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Thinking About Iran in 2013, by Thinking About China in 1971
No historical match-up is neat or perfect, but this one is usefully close.
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For the Record, I Completely Disagree With Our Latest 'Bomb Iran' Post
An analysis that answers the easiest questions and avoids the hard ones.
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A Cloud No Bigger Than a Man's Hand: Iran Dept.
Let's see how this story looks a year from now.
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Threat Inflation and Deflation, Cont.
Assessing the past 10 years of war
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Threat Inflation, Threat Deflation, the Bushes, and Robert Byrd
Ten years after the invasion of Iraq, what will we let ourselves learn?
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On Threat Inflation and Liberal Hawks
Maybe 'threat inflation' is even more widespread than we thought.
