President Donald Trump was triumphant Saturday night during his Oval Office address but within the administration the mood was less sanguine as officials braced for a potential Iran counterattack.
The decision to send American B-2 bombers to attack Iran, the most significant military action of Trump’s presidency, threatens to inject the United States into another Middle East conflict, the kind that Trump and Vice President JD Vance have long promised to avoid.
“We don’t know how much this is going to get us into something protracted,” said an administration official, who like others was granted anonymity to discuss internal deliberation. “Right now the message is we want to get rid of the nuclear capacity and focus on negotiations.”
I would think that the Americans are hoping for a counter-strike they can use to level Iran.
ReplyDeleteThis is the perfect war for them. Americans are great at invading and destroying other countries' armies but they're lousy at occupying and rebuilding those broken countries.
Iran is different for two reasons. One is that the Americans and Israelis will never try to actually invade. They don't need to; they just need to wipe out Iran's offensive capabilities. The second is that a majority of Iranians want regime change and, given the push and support, they will likely accomplish it without the US and Israel having to directly guide it.