Subject: Re: Chickenhawk Don’s Desperate Gamble...
1) Proudly replaced one hardliner with an even younger, angrier Ayatollah, because clearly what the Middle East needed was more youthful energy in theocratic extremism!
2) Gift-wrapped the entire Strait of Hormuz, because who doesn’t enjoy giving their geopolitical rivals exclusive access to 20% of the world’s oil traffic?....
How would he spin that into "winning"?
How would that square with the Israeli objective of crushing the regime and tipping the country into endless civil war?
His latest stand down expires next Monday. He likes to attack on a weekend, while talking "peace".
Steve