It would be easy to mock Donald Trump for blinking. Again.
After all, the president just decided not to decide whether to join Israel’s assault on Iran for up to two weeks. But it’s not necessarily a sign of weakness when a commander in chief decides to take his time over matters of life and death. “We’d all like a diplomatic resolution here. And diplomacy with a firm deadline can be very effective,” Brett McGurk, a former senior White House and State Department official, told CNN’s Anderson Cooper.
“Above all, while defending our own vital interests, nuclear powers must avert those confrontations which bring an adversary to a choice of either a humiliating retreat or a nuclear war,” Kennedy said. Trump’s situation with Iran is not completely analogous, because Tehran is not believed to yet possess a nuclear weapon. But the principle is the same: For diplomacy to work, Trump will need to offer Iran a face-saving way out of the confrontation that could preserve a nominal sense of honor.
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