Tom Nichols

Yeah, I think we're here in this terrible situation because of people like Obama.

I don't take back anything I wrote about Obama's feckless foreign policy in the Middle East.

But the answer to it was not to say, to throw all the cards up in the air and say, screw it, let's just bomb the crap out of everything and see what happens.

I mean, that is the pendulum in completely the other direction.

And I am still really anxious that this is not going to turn out well.

You know, it shows.

And for anybody out there who thinks that all of us conservatives from the old days are, you know, meeting at the meadows and coordinating our views.

The fact that I was exactly and I was not yet at the Atlantic.

You and I were not yet regularly meeting.

talking, that was exactly my position as well.

I was against this thing while it was being negotiated.

I said, this violates some basic rules of diplomacy, which is that you don't front them the hamburger for the money you're going to get Tuesday.

You don't do any of that.

But once you're in it, and the whole rest of the international community, including your closest allies, have signed on to it, you're stuck with it, and then you have to make it work.

Then it's the only game in town.

And the Iranians, they were as happy as could be when Trump said, fine, screw it, we're out of this.

And they said, great, so are we.

But again, let's not fall down that hole either.

We're not fighting this war over nuclear weapons.

Well, who is?