For 47 years, the Iranian regime has been waging war against the United States. That war began in 1979, when Iran seized the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, taking more than 50 Americans hostagefor 444 days.

wapo.st/47j8Ota The war continued as Iran orchestrated the 1983 bombings of the U.S. Embassy and Marine barracks in Beirut that killed 258 Americans, followed by the 1996 bombing of the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia that killed 19 Americans.

I agree with much of this @ElbridgeColby and your concern that we are not taking the threat in Taiwan seriously. But you are wrong about Ukraine damaging our readiness. If anything Ukraine aid is revitalizing our defense industrial base. Some concrete examples:

https://twitter.com/elbridgecolby/status/1842554720990154899

90% of Ukraine aid money is not going to Ukraine but is being spent here in the United States, creating US manufacturing jobs and hot production lines for U.S. weapons systems. At AEI We identified 122 defense production lines in 65 congressional districts across the country that directly benefit American workers.

THREAD 🧵on The myth of MAGA isolationism.

Donald Trump isn’t a isolationist. And a new @ReaganInstitute poll finds that neither are his followers.

The shock finding: Populist MAGA Republicans are actually more supportive of strong U.S. leadership and engagement in international affairs than establishment Republicans.

In my new @PostOpinions column I’ve got the receipts.

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/… A 51 percent majority of MAGA voters believe the United States should be “more engaged and take the lead” on foreign policy, while just 39 percent say the United States should be “less engaged and react to events” — a 12-point spread in favor of U.S. leadership.

Only 48 percent of non-MAGA Republicans support more U.S. engagement, while 44 percent say we should be less engaged.

THREAD: Here is the best-kept secret about U.S. military aid to Ukraine: Most of the money is being spent here in the USA. That’s right: Funds are not going to Ukraine but being used stateside to build new weapons or to replace weapons sent to Kyiv

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/… Until now no one had mapped out precisely where these U.S. military aid funds are going. So we catalogued the weapons being produced in the US for Ukraine, tracing the states and congressional districts where they are being made and how senators and House members voted.

Jack Lew's hearing for US Amb to Israel is next week. As I reported in 2018, Lew told Congress he would not allow Iran access to U.S. financial institutions, then issued licenses and pressure banks to do so, and lied to Congress about what he had done.

washingtonpost.com/opinions/obama… In July 2015, Lew assured the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that, under the nuclear accord, Iran “will continue to be denied access to the [U.S.] financial and commercial market.”

1/ Here's an example of the subtle bias in reporting on CRT. In the @nytimes @stefsaul reports that Loudoun Country school district "hired a consulting firm to help train teachers about bias." 2/ The firm is called the Equity Collaborative — a consulting firm that turns critical race theory into practices for "building more equitable learning environments.” theequitycollaborative.com

1/ Some have taken issue with my contention, in a recent column, that the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. did not argue that America was systemically racist; he argued that racism was un-American.

Listen to his own words: 2/ In his “I Have a Dream” speech King declared “When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir.”