I AM PLEASE TO REPORT THAT BILL KRISTOL LEARNED FROM HIS ERRORS ON THE IRAQ WAR
Writing today in The Bulwark, Kristol observes, among other things,
One assumes that the United States military would have refused to obey orders to commit a war crime like attempting the “total decimation” of a country.
But even if the military had gone ahead with some version of striking Iran’s civilian power plants, Iran would surely have responded by attacking similar targets in the Gulf, which they’ve shown they retain the capacity to do. The war would have widened and its economic effects would have worsened. And then we would have been faced with the possible introduction of ground troops to secure the Strait—which would have invited an extended conflict and an even more severe economic crisis.
I AM ALSO PLEASE TO REPORT THAT FINALLY, AT LONG LAST, WE HAVE LEARNED TRUMP’S ACTUAL WAR AIM
Kristol continues,
But notice beneath Trump’s bluster what he was demanding: Simply reopening the Strait of Hormuz. Trump’s central war aim is now just to fix the situation that his “excursion” caused.
Facing MAGA 