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Michael Mandelbaum

The partisan divisions on the two conflicts are unfortunate and, in a sense, odd.
In this election year, the international challenges to the United States, the needs of its armed forces and the approach of either major party presidential candidate to the duties of commander-in-chief have thus far gone virtually unmentioned.
The Israeli military can prevent more attacks like the one on October 7, but achieving genuine peace depends on the Palestinians.
Current U.S. Iran policy rests on the conviction that confronting Tehran with the threat of war would likely lead to war, and that such a war would follow the pattern of Afghanistan and Iraq. Neither proposition is necessarily correct.