Ben Rhodes, writing for the Atlantic, on Donald Trump’s dangerous motivation behind his recent action in Iran:
Barack Obama did achieve a deal good enough to prevent his successor from having to go to war with Iran. But now, despite all that work, a de facto state of war exists between the United States and Iran. To keep his promise to kill an achievement of Obama’s, Donald Trump has been willing to break his promise to get us out of wars in the Middle East. In doing so, he has tragically proven Obama right: The choice all along was between the Iran Deal or an unconstrained Iranian nuclear program and some form of war.
Instead of governance, we’re getting rampant egomania.