Among those who fancy themselves the conscience of the nation, a peculiar sort of motivated reasoning is making the rounds. It maintains that Donald Trump thoroughly rebuffed and discredited the “warmongers,” who covertly control American foreign policy, by executing the very strike on Iran’s nuclear program they had advocated for the better part of the last 20 years. It is a preposterous argument — a transparent face-saving maneuver — that does not merit further attention.
What does, however, is the argument’s accompanying contention that the Trump administration should live in fear of the prospect that the Iranian regime could still come apart.
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