Jonathan Bernstein, Columnist

Trump’s Thin Crisis Team Is Scary, Too

Iran policy is in the hands of inexperienced, unqualified and unconfirmed officials. That makes it more likely that things could go wrong.

January 8, 2020 at 12:43 PM UTC

By Jonathan Bernstein

Jonathan Bernstein is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering politics. A former professor of political science at the University of Texas at San Antonio, he wrote A Plain Blog About Politics.

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I’ll leave the analysis of the foreign policy and military actions between Iran and the U.S. to the experts. For what it’s worth, my read of the experts after Iran attacked U.S. military bases in Iraq Tuesday night was fairly optimistic; many sense that there’s an opportunity here for President Donald Trump to de-escalate and avoid full-out war.

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