Iran is both Trump’s war and Netanyahu’s war

As we enter Week Three of the War in Iran, let’s first establish as fact: This is, above all, Donald Trump’s war.

He started it on Feb. 28. Unfortunately, he still has not told the American people exactly why. Having not yet addressed the American people from the Oval Office about the war, his reason for starting it depends on the last reporter he spoke to. It’s either regime change, or destroying Iran’s missile capacity, or preventing Iran from developing a nuclear weapon.

And Trump alone can end it. Unfortunately, we still don’t know when that will be, either. Because, again, it depends on the last reporter who called his cell phone. In the last week, his answer has gone from “We won the, in the first hour, it was over” to “When I feel it in my bones” to it will continue for “four to five weeks if necessary.”

Clearly, this war will be over when President Trump says it’s over. We simply have no idea what will trigger that decision: the price of gas, number of American casualties, lack of popular support, or disastrous Republican numbers in the midterms. And, apparently, neither does Donald Trump.

But if the war in Iran is mainly Donald Trump’s war, it’s also Benjamin Netanyahu’s war. Indeed, this is a war Netanyahu’s been dreaming of and warning about for a long time. For 33 years, in fact.

In 1992, as a young Israeli member of Parliament, Netanyahu addressed the Knesset and said Iran was three to........

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