Trump’s Iran Decision Will Be Felt By North Korea, China
I & I Editorial Board
The New York Times is crowing that President Trump is apparently indecisive, if not downright schizophrenic, in deciding how to respond to Iran shooting down a U.S. Navy surveillance drone in the strategically vital Strait of Hormuz on Wednesday. We are to believe the commander in chief ordered an attack, then abruptly belayed that order – hopelessly torn, presumably, between pleasing MAGA Country and appeasing hawkish National Security Adviser John Bolton.
Thankfully, the executive branch of the federal government is still able to maintain secrecy in conducting defense policy, and the actual deliberations on which options the president is considering probably remain unknown to the nation’s self-styled newspaper of record. It is likely Trump will answer the Iranian attack “in a way and at an hour of our choosing,†to quote President George W. Bush shortly after the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Both Tehran’s attack and the coming American response are actually of greatest import to actors who are off this particular stage. The attack served as a message directed at the other signatories of the Obama nuclear deal with Iran, that they had better succeed in their feverish efforts to find a way around Trump’s intensified economic sanctions on Iran or there might be a war, the scale and upshot of which will be of unpredictable nature.
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