We don't know what will happen next in Iran. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo today is in Riyadh—rarely a happy portent for U.S. foreign policy—talking up a "global coalition" against Iran, as President Donald Trump vows to enact new "hard-hitting" sanctions and, you know, warns of "obliteration like you've never seen before."

And yet! Trump last week did what too few U.S. presidents do, which was a) call off a military strike, b) do so in the name of disproportionality, and c) say as much in public. And so the first chunk of today's Editors' Roundtable edition of the Reason Podcast, featuring Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, Peter Suderman, and Matt Welch, includes praise and analysis of the president's reticence. The gang also foreshadows the staggering amount of check-writing that will be promised in this week's opening round of Democratic presidential debates.

Audio production by Ian Keyser.

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