Sen. John Cornyn’s reversal on the Senate filibuster may or may not be sincere, but it is logical. Democrats tried to blow up the Senate filibuster during Joe Biden’s presidency. The Democrats’ 2022 escalation failed to destroy the Senate filibuster, but it weakened the mutual deterrence that the filibuster relies on. Last year, Trump set back Iran’s nuclear program with bunker-busting bombs in Operation Midnight Hammer. The best hope for avoiding a prolonged entanglement, then, is that Iran’s regime remains deterrable in the postwar period.

Source: Washington Post March 15, 2026 13:31 UTC