President Donald Trump has never been shy of spectacle, but his decision on Saturday night to drop a dozen 30,000-pound bunker-busters on Iran’s fortified enrichment plants at Fordo, Natanz and Isfahan marks the wildest throw of the dice in a career built on wagers. For a generation Washington relied on sanctions, sabotage and the slow drip of diplomacy to delay Tehran’s nuclear ambitions; Trump opted for shock-and-awe where four predecessors feared an endless desert war. Candidate Trump railed against “pointless” Middle East adventures. Six months into his presidency, he has lit the fuse on the very conflagration he promised to avoid, and he has done so against an adversary that has already warned every US base and oil tanker within its missile range. He........

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