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David Wurmser

David Wurmser

David Wurmser, Ph.D., an American foreign-policy specialist, is a fellow with the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs, and a senior analyst for Middle East Affairs at the Center for Security Policy. He served as Middle East adviser to former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney.

Do the negatives of the strike on Iran outweigh the positives?
The impotence of a regime whose sole currency is based on a reign of terror is being exposed.
The rift is all about the U.S. State Department’s desire to reassert control.
Israel may possess tactical superiority in every theater, but it lacks strategic initiative and control in all of them. Iran is still driving everything.
Why now? Among other things, the U.S. administration is losing its domestic footing on Iran.
The cult of martyrdom and death fostered by the ayatollahs has backfired, and may well destroy them.
While virtually no one was pleased by the outcome of the president’s trip, Israel, Saudi Arabia and the UAE came away the biggest losers.
Israel must step up and show its neighbors that it is strong and self-confident.