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15 March 2026

Trump Should Aim to Neutralize the Iran Regime, Not Destroy It

Charles A. Kupchan

Charles Kupchan is a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and professor of international affairs at Georgetown University in the Walsh School of Foreign Service and Department of Government. He is the author of the forthcoming book: “Bringing Order to Anarchy: Governing the World to Come.”

President Donald Trump’s decision to join Israel in launching a broad military campaign against Iran has produced a swirl of unanswered questions. Why did a president who has repeatedly vowed to pull the United States back from military quagmires plunge the nation into yet another risky war in the Middle East? Did Trump short shrift diplomacy and move too quickly to war? Did he do an adequate job of justifying the war to the American public and U.S. allies?

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