It’s easy to bomb a place to dust. The military is set up to do precisely that, and with a wave of a presidential hand, countless tonnes of high explosives can be launched at whoever he wants. But destruction is the easy part: figuring out what to do next is a teeny bit more complicated.
Donald Trump is currently in the simple and easy “destruction” phase when it comes to Iran. Next up comes the far more complex questions of what to do with a shattered, traumatized Iran with no functioning government, infrastructure, or economy.
