A former intelligence officer's 1980 reflections on selecting Cold War targets are worth revisiting in the wake of the second Trump administration, but perhaps not for the reasons you might imagine.

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He served as Senior Director for the Middle East at the National Security Council during the George W. Bush administration.

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