We speak with Lebanese-born
academic Gilbert Achcar about the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran, U.S. foreign
policy under President Trump and more. Achcar says Trump’s military actions in
Venezuela and Iran are not as dramatic a departure from U.S. policy as some
commentators have suggested, calling it “an old-new imperial doctrine.” While
the George W. Bush administration believed in “regime change,” says Achcar,
Trump is “just going back to 19th-century gunboat diplomacy: You bomb a country
until they submit.”
