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During the 1979-1980 hostage crisis, a defiant Iran starkly demonstrated the limits of American power.

Forty-five years later, it is doing the same thing, although in vastly different circumstances.

Back then, when the post-Vietnam military was at a low ebb, we didn't strike Iran, and a long-shot rescue operation ended in abject failure.

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Sometimes a red scare isn't such a bad thing.

Over the last several weeks, President Trump has issued forth with five-alarm-fire warnings about the Democratic Socialists of America really being communists, and his opponents have blasted him for the worst sort of McCarthyism.

Trump's rhetoric has been blunderbuss-like and over the top, but the ...Read more

Sometimes a red scare isn't such a bad thing.

Over the last several weeks, President Trump has issued forth with five-alarm-fire warnings about the Democratic Socialists of America really being communists, and his opponents have blasted him for the worst sort of McCarthyism.

Trump's rhetoric has been blunderbuss-like and over the top, but the ...Read more

Sometimes a red scare isn't such a bad thing.

Over the last several weeks, President Trump has issued forth with five-alarm-fire warnings about the Democratic Socialists of America really being communists, and his opponents have blasted him for the worst sort of McCarthyism.

Trump's rhetoric has been blunderbuss-like and over the top, but the ...Read more

An Iran war that was supposed to be brief, and then was supposed to be over, is imposing an increasing price on Donald Trump's presidency.

We've seen a second term of a Republican administration go this way before. There are distinct echoes of George W. Bush's Iraq War -- the conflict that Trump has long excoriated -- in the president's ...Read more

An Iran war that was supposed to be brief, and then was supposed to be over, is imposing an increasing price on Donald Trump's presidency.

We've seen a second term of a Republican administration go this way before. There are distinct echoes of George W. Bush's Iraq War -- the conflict that Trump has long excoriated -- in the president's ...Read more

An Iran war that was supposed to be brief, and then was supposed to be over, is imposing an increasing price on Donald Trump's presidency.

We've seen a second term of a Republican administration go this way before. There are distinct echoes of George W. Bush's Iraq War -- the conflict that Trump has long excoriated -- in the president's ...Read more

An Iran war that was supposed to be brief, and then was supposed to be over, is imposing an increasing price on Donald Trump's presidency.

We've seen a second term of a Republican administration go this way before. There are distinct echoes of George W. Bush's Iraq War -- the conflict that Trump has long excoriated -- in the president's ...Read more

Congress has been known to slip indefensible special-interest provisions into large must-pass bills when no one is looking.

What it has never done before is use such sleight of hand to hand over control of the U.S. military to a foreign country. But that's what we're told is on the verge of happening on Capitol Hill.

The House just passed ...Read more

Congress has been known to slip indefensible special-interest provisions into large must-pass bills when no one is looking.

What it has never done before is use such sleight of hand to hand over control of the U.S. military to a foreign country. But that's what we're told is on the verge of happening on Capitol Hill.

The House just passed ...Read more

Congress has been known to slip indefensible special-interest provisions into large must-pass bills when no one is looking.

What it has never done before is use such sleight of hand to hand over control of the U.S. military to a foreign country. But that's what we're told is on the verge of happening on Capitol Hill.

The House just passed ...Read more

Was Odysseus, the legendary Greek warrior, actually a wimp?

The most trenchant criticisms of Christopher Nolan's new blockbuster movie involve how he portrays the hero of the tale.

In the original, Odysseus is a clever, multifaceted hero who comes up with the idea for the Trojan Horse and then, after the Greeks win the decade-long war with ...Read more

Was Odysseus, the legendary Greek warrior, actually a wimp?

The most trenchant criticisms of Christopher Nolan's new blockbuster movie involve how he portrays the hero of the tale.

In the original, Odysseus is a clever, multifaceted hero who comes up with the idea for the Trojan Horse and then, after the Greeks win the decade-long war with ...Read more

Was Odysseus, the legendary Greek warrior, actually a wimp?

The most trenchant criticisms of Christopher Nolan's new blockbuster movie involve how he portrays the hero of the tale.

In the original, Odysseus is a clever, multifaceted hero who comes up with the idea for the Trojan Horse and then, after the Greeks win the decade-long war with ...Read more

Was Odysseus, the legendary Greek warrior, actually a wimp?

The most trenchant criticisms of Christopher Nolan's new blockbuster movie involve how he portrays the hero of the tale.

In the original, Odysseus is a clever, multifaceted hero who comes up with the idea for the Trojan Horse and then, after the Greeks win the decade-long war with ...Read more

Was Odysseus, the legendary Greek warrior, actually a wimp?

The most trenchant criticisms of Christopher Nolan's new blockbuster movie involve how he portrays the hero of the tale.

In the original, Odysseus is a clever, multifaceted hero who comes up with the idea for the Trojan Horse and then, after the Greeks win the decade-long war with ...Read more

Was Odysseus, the legendary Greek warrior, actually a wimp?

The most trenchant criticisms of Christopher Nolan's new blockbuster movie involve how he portrays the hero of the tale.

In the original, Odysseus is a clever, multifaceted hero who comes up with the idea for the Trojan Horse and then, after the Greeks win the decade-long war with ...Read more

Was Odysseus, the legendary Greek warrior, actually a wimp?

The most trenchant criticisms of Christopher Nolan's new blockbuster movie involve how he portrays the hero of the tale.

In the original, Odysseus is a clever, multifaceted hero who comes up with the idea for the Trojan Horse and then, after the Greeks win the decade-long war with ...Read more

Was Odysseus, the legendary Greek warrior, actually a wimp?

The most trenchant criticisms of Christopher Nolan's new blockbuster movie involve how he portrays the hero of the tale.

In the original, Odysseus is a clever, multifaceted hero who comes up with the idea for the Trojan Horse and then, after the Greeks win the decade-long war with ...Read more