The Trump administration thought that its attack on Iranian nuclear facilities was a limited show of strength with no cost. "When you can't solve it diplomatically, you use overwhelming military power to solve it, and then you get the hell out of there before it ever becomes a protracted conflict. That is the Trump doctrine," Vice President J.D. Vance told the audience at an Ohio Republican Party dinner.
Although President Donald Trump said that the U.S. would bomb Iran again if it tried to rebuild, he claims that will not be necessary and insists that a diplomatic deal can tie up loose ends. "I said 'Iran will not have nuclear.' Well, we blew it up. It's blown up to kingdom come, and so I don't feel very strongly about it. If we got a document, it wouldn't be bad. We're going to meet with them," Trump said at the NATO summit on Wednesday.
But the hawks in Washington who pushed for the U.S. to join the Israeli-Iranian war aren't satisfied. As predicted, they're arguing that the job isn't done and agitating for a more extended war. And now that the political barrier has been broken, it's easy for them to push for more attacks.
