“Think of the difference in versatility between dumb phones and smartphones. For the past two decades we have been consumed by preventing Iran’s big weapon, but it is the thousands of small smart weapons Iran has been proliferating that have become the real and immediate threat to its neighbors.’’
-Karim Sadjadpour, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment, quoted in Thomas L. Friedman’s opinion article in the New York Times assessing how the Middle East threat environment has changed since Joe Biden served as Vice President. [New York Times]