In his nationwide address on Wednesday, Donald Trump could not have been clearer about the course of the Iran war. It’s not ending any time soon and there will be no deescalation of military force. Instead, channelling his inner General Curtis LeMay, Trump announced: ‘We are going to hit them extremely hard over the next two to three weeks. We’re going to bring them back to the stone ages where they belong.’

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No, they don’t. It was a jarring reference to an ancient and proud Persian civilisation that has been commandeered by a gang of thugs. Apart from the dubious morality of luxuriating in the prospect of annihilating an entire country, the practical problem is this: the Bomb Them Back to the Stone Age strategy didn’t work in Vietnam, where America dumped more munitions from the air than it had in the second world war two – and it’s not working in Iran, where a regime that Trump repeatedly........

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