Commentary: Still No Sign of an Off-Ramp for US in Iran War

Commentary: Still no sign of an off-ramp for US in Iran war

Will being “bombed back to the Stone Age” or getting backlash from soaring petrol prices drive Iran or the US to climb down? NUS Middle East Institute’s Carl Skadian weighs in.

Israel making sure Trump can't find an off-ramp in Iran

Netanyahu pitched the war as a repeat of Israel's apparent 'audacious feat' of smashing Hezbollah. The US president should have noted instead Israel's moral and strategic defeat in Gaza. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu must have persuaded Donald Trump that a war on Iran would unfold much like the pager attack in Lebanon 18 months ago. The two militaries would jointly decapitate the leadership in Tehran, and it would crumble just as Hez…

Israel Is Making Sure Trump Can't Find an Off-Ramp in Iran

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu must have persuaded Donald Trump that a war on Iran would unfold much like the pager attack in Lebanon 18 months ago. The two militaries would jointly decapitate the leadership in Tehran, and it would crumble just as Hezbollah had collapsed – or so it…

Israel is making sure Trump can’t find an off-ramp in Iran

The main problem for Trump, the US narcissist-in-chief, is that he is no longer in charge of events – beyond a series of soundbites, alternating between aggression and accommodation, that appear only to have enriched his family and friends as oil markets rise and fall on his every utterance. Trump’s words are worthless. He could agree to terms tomorrow, but how could Tehran ever be sure that it would not face another round of strikes six months …