Trump Will Either Double Down or Cut and Run Leaving Us, Our Allies and the Iranian People So Much Worse Off 

We begin with the two possible scenarios of what Trump is about to do to end his war on Iran with one sending in the Marines and digging the hole deeper or two cutting and running allowing Iran to set up a toll booth on the Strait of Hormuz and abandoning allies, leaving the Iranian people under the yoke of an even more repressive government with Russia and China the only winners. Joining us is Robert Kuttner, the co-founder and co-editor of The American Prospect and the Ida and Meyer Kirstein Chair at Brandeis University. He was formerly an assistant to the legendary I.F. Stone, a chief investigator for the Senate Banking Committee, and for 20 years wrote a column at Business Week. His books include Can Democracy Survive Global Capitalism? and Going Big: FDR’s Legacy, Biden’s New Deal, and the Struggle to Save Democracy, and he has an article at The American Prospect we discuss “Trump’s Delusional Escalations in Iran.” His new memoir just out is, Notes for Next Time: Surviving Tyranny, Redeeming America.

Trump’s Strategic Failure In Iran

Then we speak with Jon Hoffman, a policy analyst in defense and foreign policy at the Cato Institute and a professor at George Mason University specializing in Middle East geopolitics and political Islam. He was recently awarded the “40 under 40” award from the Middle East Policy Council for his work on U.S. foreign policy in the region, and his work has been featured in Middle East Policy, Open Democracy, The Cipher Brief and Foreign Policy Magazine. He has an article at The CATO Institute we discuss, “A Strategic Failure in Iran.”

Trump’s War is Holding Him Hostage

Then finally we speak with Sidney Blumenthal, the former assistant and senior adviser to President Bill Clinton, and senior adviser to Hillary Clinton. He has been a national staff reporter for The Washington Post, Washington editor and staff writer for The New Yorker and his books include the bestsellers The Clinton Wars, The Rise of the Counter-Establishment and The Permanent Campaign. His latest book is All the Powers on Earth, The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln 1856-1860, and his latest article at The Guardian we discuss is “Trump’s war is holding him hostage.”