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Their wordsOne thing is certain, however: as my colleague Kelly Grieco has pointed out, the cost asymmetry of intercepting cheap drones with exceedingly expensive interceptors does not favor the United States or its allies.
Their wordsIt seems very much as if the president has bitten off more than he can chew with this attack on Iran.
Their wordsThough the US has been going through a period of foreign policy recalibration, in part driven by the failures of regime change wars in the Middle East, Iran has long been the white whale of American liberal primacy.
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