An article by Phillip Gordon of Brookings published today, October 12, by Foreign Affairs, titled America Shouldn’t Let Go of the Middle East , included several paragraphs about nuclear in Iran worth commenting on. The full paragraphs are below. Here are my comments on three key sentences. Iran would simply forgo the nuclear option. The absence of any mention of Iran being an NPT non-nuclear weapon state, which involves its commitment to ‘ forgo the nuclear option ’, is indicative of a blind spot in Washington policy think tanks. In their thinking, the U.S. is dominant; the strong decide what the weak must accept or do. The idea that States (governments) could be relied on to do what they say when they sign an international treaty is considered naïve or something worse. After all, the U.S. only lives up to its treaty commitments when it suits it. Wha...
It is difficult to understand how day after day the U.S. President says and writes lies that are reported but not corrected or laughed at in the media. He just called Iranians ‘ freaking crazy ’. That more properly applies to him as this sampling from October 10, 2026, shows. Trump said during a speech in Tennessee on October 10: " They're a lunatic country. They know that. I tell them that all the time. I say, you guys are freaking crazy ." Trump in a Truth Social post on October 10 criticizing the Nobel Peace Prize decision said he had settled eight wars and was close to ending or settling two others: “ I ... stopped the number one state sponsor of terror, the Islamic Republic of Iran, from obtaining a Nuclear Weapon… I stopped Iran from having a Nuclear Weapon, and blowing up the entire Middle East and, ultimately, far beyond! I saved more lives th...