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July 29, 2026

America Shouldn’t Throw in the Towel on Iran

The wages of defeat are too steep.

A consensus has been building—one especially widespread among mainstream policy analysts, academic experts, and those who write for prestigious publications—that the war with the Islamic Republic has been an unmitigated disaster for the U.S. It therefore follows, as Will Walldorf argues in the pages of Foreign Policy, that Washington should simply accept whatever terms are on offer and disengage. Shay Khatiri looks to the lessons of previous capitulations:

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