WASHINGTON, March 3 -- Hudson Institute, a research organization that says it promotes leadership for a secure, free and prosperous future, issued the following excerpts of a commentary on March 2, 2026, by Walter Russell Mead, Ravenel B. Curry III distinguished fellow in strategy and statesmanship, to the Wall Street Journal:

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Trump Tries to Avoid the Iraq Trap

He practices twenty-first-century gunboat diplomacy in Iran, as he did in Venezuela.
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