Apr 08, 2026 14:45 pm IST

Opinion | America Will Still Recover From The Iran Humiliation. And That's The Tragedy

While Trump goes on making social media threats to annihilate the entire civilisation of Iran, former Democratic presidents, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, cannot muster anything other than sports tweets. The only thing the country is united in is tone-deafness.

Nishtha Gautam Nishtha Gautam Columnist

Nishtha Gautam Columnist

Can the US ever recover from this Iran blunder?

The short answer is yes.

In the past 200 years, all democracies have looked up to the United States of America for inspiration while taking baby steps towards it, for strength when they falter, and support when they are threatened. More importantly, the US will never let you forget them. The first principles of the US democracy have given democracies across the world something to aspire to: fairness, knowledge, hope, dignity, unity, and security.

"The first principles and causes are most knowable; for by reason of these, and from these, all other things come to be known, and not these by means of the things subordinate to them," wrote Aristotle in Metaphysics in 350 BC. The latest Iran episode has managed to shatter every single one of these foundational values of the United States. 

Let's talk about fairness. President........

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