By attacking Iran, Trump has cornered himself. Yet history offers a lesson – and a victory on his terms.
Foreign policy is the choice of the least ill among ills.
By attacking Iran at Israel’s behest, US President Donald Trump has maneuvered himself into an unenviable position between a rock and a hard place.
Donald’s rock: Escalation
If America’s commander-in-chief continues his war of choice against Iran, he is likely to lose by any meaningful measure. Caught in a spiral of violence, escalation instinctively seems to him the only way forward.
His Treasury Secretary, Scott Bessent, captured the fatally flawed logic: “Sometimes you have to…
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