Here we go again. Switch out Saddam Hussein for the Ayatollah Khamenei and Ahmed Chalabi for Reza Pahlavi and you have a fresh war for regime change in the Middle East, this time with Israel as America’s sidekick. With Operation Epic Fury, the American and Israeli bombing of Iran and push for regime change, the self-proclaimed “President of Peace” runs the risk not only of triggering wider upheaval in the Middle East, but also globally. Is this a new Sarajevo moment?

With Trump’s own generals having warned him that attacking Iran could be a debacle, he may have torched his own presidency

With Trump’s own generals having warned him that attacking Iran could be a debacle, he may have torched his own presidency

Unlike George W. Bush in 2003, who worked to bolster domestic and international support for attacking Iraq, Donald Trump has disdained the slightest effort to justify his war publicly. He never consulted Congress. He devoted a few cursory sentences to Iraq in his State of the Union speeches. His oleaginous representatives such as Steve Witkoff have mumbled about the possibility of Iran acquiring nuclear weapons within a week or so. At least........

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