{"id":21727,"date":"2026-03-05T15:16:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T15:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=21727"},"modified":"2026-03-05T15:16:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T15:16:24","slug":"nate-swanson-richard-haass-americas-war-of-choice-on-iran-foreign-affairs-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=21727","title":{"rendered":"Nate Swanson &amp; Richard Haass: America&#8217;s War of Choice on Iran | Foreign Affairs Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It seems that Trump got overconfident from the military&#8217;s dazzling success in Venezuela. That, combined with Trump gutting the bureaucracy&nbsp;that actually knew a lot about Iran, led to a war against Iran that&#8217;s harder to win than Trump expected.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Nate Swanson &amp; Richard Haass: America&#039;s War of Choice on Iran | Foreign Affairs Interview\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wgHH_y8tceI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that Trump got overconfident from the military&#8217;s dazzling success in Venezuela. That, combined with Trump gutting the bureaucracy that actually knew a lot about Iran, led to a war against Iran that&#8217;s harder to win than Trump expected. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wgHH_y8tceI<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[617,552,221,272,355,314,156,391,170,619,741,158],"class_list":["post-21727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-bureaucracy","tag-conflict","tag-donald-trump","tag-foreign-affairs","tag-foreign-policy","tag-international-relations","tag-iran","tag-middle-east","tag-trump","tag-united-states","tag-venezuela","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21727"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21728,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21727\/revisions\/21728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}