Trump\u2019s Iran war is holding him hostage | Sidney Blumenthal | The Guardian<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n
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Witkoff\u2019s \u201cpuzzling and factually-challenged statements\u201d 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 \u201cimminent threat\u201d when there was none. \u201cWitkoff\u2019s 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,\u201d the ACA report concluded.
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\nWhether Witkoff\u2019s and Kushner\u2019s 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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\nBut this war ranks in the annals of war among those launched willfully through ignorance and sheer stupidity.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If there is any consistency to Trump\u2019s policy, it is a series…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[364,1102,57,56],"class_list":["post-44829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-iran","tag-tfg","tag-usa","tag-war","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44829"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44831,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44829\/revisions\/44831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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If there is any consistency to Trump\u2019s policy, it is a series of frantic attempts to justify his original blunder and extricate himself from its dire consequences<\/p>\n