The risks for Trump of 'regime change' in Iran: Just ask George W. Bush

Amid Iran Crisis, Trump May Ignore 80 Years of Regime Change Mistakes

This article is part of The D.C. Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox. Donald Trump expected his first face-to-face meeting with Barack Obama would be all of “10 or 15 minutes.” After all, the pair had spent years circling each other, trading barbs from afar and using the other’s political movement as a blend of punching bag and strawman. The mutual enmity was hardly a secret; Obama’s trolli…

Regime change, bombs, or NOTHING: What should Trump do in Iran?

There's a big debate right now among the political Right over whether the United States should intervene in Israel's war with Iran. Should President Trump bomb Iran? Should he encourage regime change? Or should he completely stay out of it? Glenn Beck and The Federalist CEO and Co-founder Sean Davis discuss. TranscriptBelow is a rush transcript that may contain errorsGLENN: Sean, welcome to the program.VOICE: Thank you for having me, sir.GLENN: …

When it comes to regime change in Iran, Jews should be careful what they wish for

The first night of Israel’s attack on Iran, I texted one of my friends in Tehran, worried about his welfare, and learned that, as the bombs fell, his entire family was fearfully huddled together in one room, just like my Israeli friends and cousins. I was struck, therefore, by his response on the second night of Israel’s bombing. “The mood is strangely good,” he texted me over our encrypted platform, “as if we already got used to it. Just a few …

The risks for Trump of 'regime change' in Iran: Just ask George W. Bush

From Iraq to Cuba, commanders-in-chief have wrestled with seeking regime change, sometimes with catastrophic consequences.

The regime change maniacs are back: Iran is in their sights, and they’ve learned nothing - The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity

In 2002, the Bush administration was met with scant resistance from the mainstream media or wider establishment as it drummed up the case for toppling Saddam Hussein’s regime in Iraq. But there were a handful of dissenters, above all Brent Scowcroft. The two-time former national-security adviser (under Gerald Ford and George H. W. Bush) urged the nation to consider the law of unintended consequences — and to open its imagination to nightmare sce…