Opinion: Faced with a foreign crisis, Trump wants everyone to know he might do something. But also that he might not
—nothing induces more global chaos than his routine practice of stepping up to the microphone and saying that he will do something, while also insisting that he will not do that very same thing..” As to whether such an attack would target Iranian cultural sites, the president said it would not—or rather, that it would not “if that’s what the law is.
But the president especially relishes the construction when he arrives on the scene of a major foreign-policy crisis. It’s been his rhetorical crutch for years now whenever he decided to jawbone the North Koreans.
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