Frederick Deknatel
Frederick Deknatel is a journalist and nonresident fellow at Century International, where he writes about Middle Eastern affairs. He edits the magazine Hidden Cities. He was previously executive editor of Democracy in Exile, the journal of Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN), managing editor of World Politics Review and a staff editor at Foreign Affairs.
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The Uncanny Echoes of Iraq in Trump’s War With Iran
There are uncanny similarities in how Bush spun and justified the Iraq War and how Trump is spinning and justifying the war in Iran. Yet Trump administration officials are trying to combat the perception that the two wars are at all similar, no doubt to avoid any association with a generational U.S. foreign policy failure.