Trump has been inconsistent about many things, but he’s been strikingly consistent about one thing: He would rather talk than fight, writes columnist DoyleMcManus.
President Trump warned Iran last week that it “made a very big mistake" in shooting down a U.S. drone, but he drew back from military action.
Then Trump pivoted. He sent a series of messages to Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, that all he really wants is to roll back what’s left of Tehran’s dormant nuclear program — a shiny new Trump deal to replace the Obama-era deal he blew up.. I want to make that clear,” Trump said. “We’re looking for no nuclear weapons.”
. “I am in no hurry,” he wrote. “Sanctions are biting…. Iran can NEVER have Nuclear Weapons, not against the USA, and not against the WORLD!”Trump’s decision to abort the raid did not go down well with Republican hawks. Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming, a second-generation saber rattler, warned: “The failure to respond to this kind of direct provocation … [could] be a very serious mistake.” Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and others agreed.
But once Kim suspended tests and agreed to a summit meeting, Trump reversed course cartoonishly. He praised the dictator he once derided as “Little Rocket Man” as an up-and-coming statesman.
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