When Donald Trump launched the Iran war in February, he risked alienating the non-interventionist base he had spent a decade cultivating.
As he now tries to extract himself from the highly unpopular war, it looks increasingly like he might inflame the other side of his base — the foreign policy hawks with whom he suddenly found himself in-league.
While there are few hard details of what’s actually in the memorandum of understanding, or MOU, with Iran, those hawks are openly worrying that Trump gave away too much in the name of trying to end the war. They’ve made no secret that they fear Trump signing on to a nuclear agreement like the one struck by the Obama administration in 2015, which they (and Trump himself) derided as too weak for more than a decade.
He 100% caved, and it’s 100% the best decision he’s ever made.
Well, it’s a fire he started so, uh, well, I guess?
This is real nine-dimensional chess type of stuff. The Shart of the Deal.
I’m not really complimenting him, the bar is just somewhere in earth’s mantle at this point.
People need to keep in mind that Johnson, Nixon, Bush, and Obama all chose escalation in the face of loose/loose situation. A ground war in Iran would have been a catastrophe and TACO is a huge W for the thousands and thousands of people who don’t have to die now.
Jackass doesn’t get to start a fire and then get credit for NOT throwing kerosene on it.