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Why Britain Is Saying No to Trump’s Iran War

Why Britain Is Saying No to Trump’s Iran War

The David Frum Show vor 7 Monaten

Alastair Campbell on the end of the U.S.-U.K. “special relationship.” Plus: Why Democrats in Congress cannot ignore their duty, and “The Director,” by Daniel Kehlmann.

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On this week’s episode of “The David Frum Show,” The Atlantic’s
David Frum opens with his thoughts on President Trump’s dangerous
disregard for Congress’s powers of war-making and peacemaking.
David argues that though Republicans have enabled the president’s
dark impulses, Democrats in Congress also seem happy to turn a
blind eye to the Trump administration’s actions in Iran. This,
David argues, jeopardizes the restraints put on the president in a
constitutional government. Then, David is joined by Alastair
Campbell, a writer and co-host of “The Rest Is Politics,” to
discuss how President Trump has poisoned the “special relationship”
between the United States and Great Britain. Frum and Campbell
analyze how Trump’s impulsive war in Iran has put further strain on
the alliance and how Trump’s relationship with Prime Minister Keir
Starmer differs from former President George W. Bush’s relationship
with former Prime Minister Tony Blair at the outset of the war in
Iraq. Finally, David ends the show with a discussion of the German
novel “The Director,” by Daniel Kehlmann. David explores how the
novel offers a poignant portrayal of moral compromise in Nazi
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