If there is any consistency to Trump’s policy, it is a series of frantic attempts to justify his original blunder and extricate himself from its dire consequences
Source: Trump’s Iran war is holding him hostage | Sidney Blumenthal | The Guardian
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Witkoff’s “puzzling and factually-challenged statements” were fundamental. Essentially, lacking any expertise, he appeared to misunderstand every aspect of the status of the Iranian nuclear program and its proposal. On that basis, Witkoff advised Trump there was an “imminent threat” when there was none. “Witkoff’s failure to learn the nuclear file and surround himself with the technical expertise necessary to negotiate an effective deal was a diplomatic disservice to U.S. and international nonproliferation goals,” the ACA report concluded.
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Whether Witkoff’s and Kushner’s Middle East financial interests played a role in their advice remains a matter for speculation. But there can be no doubt that their ignorance and incompetence were decisive. The negotiations were a sham. Trump gleefully went to war on the word of bunglers.
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But this war ranks in the annals of war among those launched willfully through ignorance and sheer stupidity.
