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  Forwarded this email?  Subscribe here  for more   Watch now   The High Cost of Trump’s War With Iran and How You Will Pay The Price — Meidas Defense Joe Plenzler  and  MeidasTouch Network Apr 17   By Joe Plenzler In the windowless offices of the Pentagon, there was once a quiet understanding: politics stops at the water’s edge. I remember sitting down for lunch in 2011 with Rosa Brooks—then a senior counselor to the Undersecretary of Defense for Policy—to navigate complex Marine Corps issues. We didn’t talk about parties; we talked about the law, strategic stability, and the gravity of American leadership. Today, that gravity has been replaced by a terrifying lightness. In a recent conversation with Brooks, now a Georgetown law professor and veteran of two administrations, the diagnosis of our current national security posture was grim. We are no longer the stabilizing force the world once relied upon. Instead, under the exceptionally poor leade...