COMMENTARY
The End of Obama’s Middle East
by Matthew Continetti
February 2020

…The full ramifications of killing Soleimani won’t be known for a while. But its effects on Democrats, noninterventionists, and longtime national-security opponents of Trump were clear and immediate. These people were despondent. Not only did they oppose the Soleimani strike, they saw it as a prelude to a full-scale war. But it wasn’t Soleimani’s demise that caused them to panic. It was the inevitable collapse of the nuclear deal with Iran. READ MORE