'Certainly real risks ahead': NYT Columnist analyzes threat of U.S.-Iran conflict
MSNBC·2026-03-02 17:18

coluist Nick Kristof. He wrote that new piece entitled The Folly of Attacking Iran. And, Nick, you say it's a mistake to make war on the basis of best-case scenarios.Tell us why you believe the U .S. is unlikely to achieve its objectives in Iran. So, I mean, I think historically when we've come into a naughty international problem, as we had in Vietnam, as we had in Iraq and as we now have with Iran, the tendency is to reach for military solution.And what we've seen is that they tend to be tactically powerf ...