Is Iran a Distraction?

A political science professor makes sense of the US-Iran War

When I woke up to the news Saturday morning that the US and Israel had attacked Iran, I reminded myself that knowledge can be an antidote to fear. The first person I thought of to help me get my head around whether we might be escalating into yet another Middle East war and what some of the likely outcomes might be was my friend Paul Poast.

Paul is an as…