Susan Glasser: “Within the two and a half days since Donald Trump unleashed a brand new warfare within the Center East, the President and his Administration have give you an astonishing array of various, even contradictory, rationales for the American navy assault on Iran.”
“By my depend, and I’m positive I’ve missed just a few, these embody outright regime change, help to the oppressed peoples of the Islamic Republic, stripping Iran of ‘the flexibility to mission energy exterior its borders,’ stopping future Iranian-sponsored terrorist assaults whereas exacting revenge for previous ones, preëmptive motion in opposition to an imminent Iranian risk to assault U.S. forces, preëmptive motion to dam Iran from constructing ballistic missiles that might hit the U.S. mainland, and preëmptive motion to cease the Iranian nuclear program that Trump had, as just lately as final week, claimed was ‘obliterated.’”
“Many of those explanations are primarily based on false premises; some already appear to have been deserted.”
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