It is still unclear whether, as long as seven days ago, he had settled on his fateful decision to attack and obliterate Iran’s uranium enrichment facilities at the risk of sparking a new “forever” war for the US military to fight. He certainly spent the entire week keeping the world guessing, and telling everyone exactly what they wanted to hear.
Sir Keir Starmer departed the G7 summit in Canada convinced that Trump was interested in de-escalating the conflict, not becoming the primary actor within it. The Prime Minister was in “no doubt” about the matter, he told reporters only last Wednesday.
A banner in Tel Aviv on Sunday (Photo: Ahmad Gharabli / AFP)Trump played them all like a Stradivarius.
But on Saturday, the President intoned that he and the Israeli leader had “worked as a team like perhaps no team has ever worked before”. He congratulated the Israeli military on their work last week in waves of missile strikes on Iran, and said that together with the US Air Force’s B-2 bomber pilots, the two countries had “gone a long way to erasing this horrible threat to Israel”. From that kind of rhetoric, there is no turning back.
Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene said Trump should not go to war with Iran (Photo: Kenny Holston / AFP)For Trump’s “Make America Great Again” supporters, a fork in the road may now have arrived, although traditional, rally-around-the-flag backing for the country’s military is likely to prove strong. Trump’s irritation with Carlson and others may have fuelled his determination to prove that he alone will determine the movement’s future path. Greene took to social media on Saturday night and indicated that she was already willing to back off. “Let us all join together and pray for peace”, she wrote on X. Carlson remained uncharacteristically quiet.
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The country’s state broadcasters warned that “every American citizen and soldier in the region is now a legitimate target”. Addressing Trump directly, they proclaimed: “You made this choice. You started it…you’ve chosen for the blood of American soldiers to be spilled”. In what appeared to be a fresh threat to the President’s personal safety, Iran’s news anchors also thundered that “even the Presidency of Trump will not be in existence” as a result of Tehran’s planned response.
Trump’s decision to launch Saturday’s assault came just hours after he again complained that he has never been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. That goal may be more elusive than ever if the country now gets sucked into a long, terror-infused conflict with a weakened Iranian leadership that is fighting for its very survival.
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