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Can Trump End the War in Syria?
With the near-doubling of U.S. forces in northern Syria, and perhaps more on the way, President Donald Trump is moving aggressively on his pledge to “demolish and destroy” wha...
By Colin H. Kahl, Ilan Goldenberg & Nicholas Heras
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Iran's Highly Enriched Bargaining Chip
As talks over Iran's disputed nuclear program enter the home stretch, Tehran has placed a major obstacle in the way of a diplomatic solution: insistence on an industrial-scale...
By Colin H. Kahl
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How worried should U.S. policymakers be about nuclear blackmail?
In recent years, a new generation of scholars has increasingly turned to sophisticated statistical methods to tackle decades-old questions regarding the causes and consequence...
By Colin H. Kahl
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No, Obama Didn’t Lose Iraq
The surprising advances by jihadists in northern and western Iraq have produced at least one unsurprising result: accusations that President Obama’s “abandonment” of Iraq is r...
By Colin H. Kahl
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Risky Business: Why Iran's Nuclear Demands Could Backfire
This week, Iranian and U.S. diplomats raced to Geneva for unscheduled, high-level bilateral talks. The news might have come as a surprise, but it shouldn’t have. The deadline ...
By Colin H. Kahl
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Hard Choices for the New Middle East
The Obama administration may want to “pivot” away from the Middle East toward Asia, but events are not cooperating. Millions take to the streets in Egypt, leading to a militar...
By Colin H. Kahl
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Before Piling on New Sanctions, Give Rouhani a Chance
There is widespread agreement in Washington that Iranian acquisition of nuclear weapons is unacceptable and that all options should remain on the table to prevent this outcome...
By Colin H. Kahl
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Before Attacking Iran, Israel Should Learn from Its 1981 Strike on Iraq
On June 7, 1981, eight Israeli F-16 fighter jets, protected by six F-15 escorts, dropped 16 2,000-pound bombs on the nearly completed Osirak nuclear reactor at the Tuwaitha co...
By Colin H. Kahl
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The Iran Containment Fallacy
It has become increasingly fashionable in Jerusalem and Washington to advocate a military strike on Iran. Central to the case for war is the argument that a nuclear-armed Iran...
By Colin H. Kahl
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Supremely Irrelevant
One year ago today, Egyptians took to the streets to demand the removal of Hosni Mubarak's three-decade-old dictatorship. As they waved flags and chanted for the fall of the r...
By Colin H. Kahl