{"id":46844,"date":"2019-06-23T10:46:36","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T15:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=46844"},"modified":"2019-06-23T10:46:40","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T15:46:40","slug":"ten-minutes-to-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=46844","title":{"rendered":"Ten Minutes to War"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2019\/06\/21\/ten-minutes-to-war\/\">Ten Minutes to War<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Donald Trump pulled back from igniting a potentially disastrous war in the Persian Gulf on Thursday night with just 10 minutes to spare, but the super-hawks he surrounded himself with will probably try again, writes Joe Lauria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>T<\/strong>he commander-in-chief acted like one, if only briefly, on Thursday night when he said he called off air strikes on Iran\u2014and potentially a devastating war in the Persian Gulf\u2014with just ten minutes to spare, because he says a general told him to expect around 150 Iranian civilian deaths.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Donald Trump tweeted Friday morning:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&nbsp;\u201cOn Monday (sic) they shot down an unmanned drone flying&nbsp;in International Waters. We were cocked &amp; loaded to retaliate last&nbsp;night on 3 different sights when I asked, how many will die. 150&nbsp;people, sir, was the answer from a General. 10 minutes before the&nbsp;strike I stopped it, not\u2026\u2026..proportionate to shooting down an&nbsp;unmanned drone. I am in no hurry, our Military is rebuilt, new, and&nbsp;ready to go, by far the best in the world. Sanctions are biting &amp; more&nbsp;added last night. Iran can NEVER have Nuclear Weapons, not against the&nbsp;USA, and not against the WORLD!\u201d&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>It seems unlikely that a president would have to ask at the last minute about potential civilian casualties, unless the Pentagon has become so callous as to not have figured that into its war planning. \u00a0A more likely scenario is that Donald Trump was in an epic struggle with his most hawkish national security advisers\u2014Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and National Security Advisor John Bolton\u2014and with himself, and that he could not decide what to do until literally the last ten minutes, using the excuse of civilian deaths to pull back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ten Minutes to War Donald Trump pulled back from igniting a potentially disastrous war in the Persian Gulf on Thursday night with just 10 minutes to spare, but the super-hawks he surrounded himself with will probably try again, writes Joe Lauria. The commander-in-chief acted like one, if only briefly, on Thursday night when he said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[6963,26121,12261,4487,15128,1129,827,862],"class_list":["post-46844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-consortium-news","tag-donad-trump","tag-joe-lauria","tag-john-bolton","tag-mike-pompeo","tag-persian-gulf","tag-united-states","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46844"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46845,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46844\/revisions\/46845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}