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Democrats' impeachment decision a sideshow to the real showdown

The left has lost the ability to be serious about serious things, such as Iran's attack and how the US and its allies will respond.

Hugh Hewitt

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When Britain, Germany and France issued a joint statement blaming Iran for the attack on the Saudi Arabian oil refinery last week, it represented a major shift in the world's approach to the rogue regime in Tehran.

While paying lip service to the dead Joint Comprehensive Program of Action (JCPOA) – the "Iran nuclear deal" – our European allies demanded of Iran that the mullahs engage in broad, long-range negotiations. That's thinly veiled code that requires Iran to abandon its ballistic-missile program, the export of terrorism, and all nuclear weapons research and uranium enrichment.

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