Opinion: As Trump blunders towards war with Iran, Adam Schiff sounds the alarm
By Greg Sargent Greg Sargent Opinion writer covering national politics Email Bio Follow Opinion writer May 15 at 9:46 AM President Trump’s apparent drift toward war with Iran is taking on qualities that seem eerily similar to the run-up to another big armed conflict that Trump once cast as the height of elite corruption and folly.
“Iran is and has been for decades a malevolent actor and a state sponsor of terror,” Schiff told me. “But I’m also gravely concerned about actions taken by the administration that appear calculated to put us on a collision course.”Trump, of course, pulled us out of the Iran nuclear deal, apparently motivated by little more than the belief that if President Barack Obama negotiated the agreement, it must have represented nothing but capitulation and weakness.
But we’re now learning that European officials — and even some U.S. ones — say the administration’s war preparations are based on an inflated reading of those threats. Behold these remarkable paragraphs in the New York Times, which will seem chillingly familiar to anyone who paid close attention to the run-up to Iraq:
Put simply, it appears Bolton may have cornered Trump into cornering Iran. And what’s particularly alarming is that there are no signs Trump has thought through where this might end up.
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