Originally Posted by Excargodog

One needn’t “justify or forgive” someone to explain logical reasons why they may be paranoid.

Nor is Trump the only world leader who’s been saying that Iran must never get a nuclear weapon. Most of European leaders and former Presidents since Reagan considered it a red line they couldn’t be allowed to cross. Even Obama wanted them to give him ten years so it would be someone else’s problem.

Trump is simply the first one to convert talk into action and without Israel’s decapitation strikes I think even he might have hesitated. But when the $hit is going to hit the fan anyway there is a temptation to say “in for a penny, in for a pound” and cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war…