For whatever reason, Donald Trump seems reluctant to go to war — and in moments like the Iran crisis, we should be glad. Read mtaibbi's latest
in the Oval Office, Trump looked like a child preparing to confess to parents that he’d just burned the backyard shed down by mistake. He knows he wants out, but he just doesn’t know how.
Nobody really knows why. It’s one of the mysteries of Trump’s presidency. He may be secretly afraid of making a mess of military command. He may also have a instinct that war in the current political climate would hurt him electorally. He might even, who knows, genuinely believe wars are a “bad deal.”
Trump opened his 2015 campaign barking about rapists over the border and thundering that he’d build a southern wall and make Mexico pay for it. A year later he was enjoying the “great, great honor” of aPresident Enrique Pena Nieto welcomed Trump by announcing he was not paying for any damned wall. He tweeted it, too, so the world would know.
,” abasing himself in pursuit of nervous détente even more than Obama supposedly had. The Iranians, mimicking Pena Nieto’s middle-finger approach, refused even this offer, amusingly leaving Trump to twist in the wind.
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