The Week’s Most Interesting Reads

When did it become acceptable to assassinate a top leader of a country we aren’t even at war with? Jim Webb comments on the Soleimani assassination and what it means for U.S. foreign policy.

Trump has no strategy for the Middle East, only vengeance. Stephen Wertheim explains how Trump’s Iran policy is driven by “a thirst for vengeance and domination.”

Think tank that promotes war and regime change paid salary of departing Trump NSC staffer. Eli Clifton reports on the very disturbing news that the hard-line anti-Iran Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) continued paying the salary of Richard Goldberg even after he was hired to work on the National Security Council.