The government will get a lot of blame; why did we bring this conflict? What happened? |
The idea that the U.S. is thinking actively about a strike - what a complete and absolute surprise. The same people who are complaining we don't have any plans for Iraq seem to get upset by the fact that we're doing planning for Iran. |
There are a lot of people in Iran who think this guy's a real risk-taker. Let's play on the splits. |
There are lots of problems in Iraq, and this episode was done by some nasty actors who are not friendly to the United States. |
Traditionally it's much harder to get countries to roll back from activities that they have already begun than to persuade countries not to start something. |