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October 10, 2026
Good morning! Today is Saturday, October 10th 2026, and this is The American Conservative's Morning Brief. Jason Jones argues that Ambassador Mike Huckabee must resign over a New York Times report alleging his embassy suppressed information about American citizens killed in the West Bank and sanitized reporting on the Netanyahu government. Arta Moeini compares the seventh month of the Iran War to the Roman Emperor Valerian's catastrophic Persian campaign, arguing that MAGA militarism has collided with the structural limits of American power. Moeini suggests this "Pyrrhic defeat" could finally…
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