Commentary
The dispatch of at least 5,000 U.S. Marines and airborne troops to the Middle East is a clear warning to the various fragments that still comprise the Iranian regime that the United States and Israel are about to strangle that country economically and make it practically unlivable—that is unless plausible spokespeople who can be held to account for the regime’s behavior pledge to end Iran’s nuclear military ambitions and its championship of international terrorism. It is an extraordinary manifestation of the uniqueness of the Trump era that the antagonism to the president in the United States and parts of Western Europe and Canada is such that those afflicted by psychotic Trump-hate have already succumbed to claiming that the Iran war is a failure.
