What Just Happened in Iran
From the Tom Woods Letter:
Nobody can be exactly sure what’s going on here.
Just days ago, Donald Trump said to reporters that he had told Benjamin Netanyahu that military intervention “would be inappropriate to do right now because we’re very close to a solution. Now, that could change at any moment. It could change with a phone call. But right now, I think they want to make a deal. And, if we can make a deal, [it would] save a lot of lives.”
And then we have the Israeli strikes from yesterday.
So at first, people wondered: is Netanyahu simply defying and humiliating Trump, and deliberately sabotaging ongoing negotiations?
But then we’re hearing that from Mark Dubowitz of the “Foundation for the Defense of Democracies” that “President Trump’s deception campaign against Khamenei and the Islamic Republic will take its place as one of the most effective ever run by a political leader.”
And then we have this statement, which certainly sounds like the U.S. is now on the hook for all this:
The original Iran deal was an extremely rare case of sanity from Barack Obama, a president I opposed more strongly than did almost anyone you know, so there was no need to be in these negotiations in
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