Trump Is in Over His Head

To have spent any amount of time observing President Trump over the last month is to conclude that he is in far over his head.

The president is struggling with the consequences of his actions, raging in protest of the fact that for all its firepower, the United States cannot bomb Tehran into submission. When Trump launched his “short-term excursion” into Iran, he assumed that it would be — in the words of a Pentagon official in the last Republican administration to launch a Middle East war — a “cakewalk.”

That, as Trump’s own intelligence........

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