{"id":48575,"date":"2019-09-20T13:20:58","date_gmt":"2019-09-20T18:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=48575"},"modified":"2019-09-20T13:21:01","modified_gmt":"2019-09-20T18:21:01","slug":"can-trump-still-avoid-war-with-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=48575","title":{"rendered":"Can Trump Still Avoid War with Iran?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/buchanan.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/001-lindsey-graham-wikimedia-01-e1568939318718.jpg?fit=1200%2C555&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"Can Trump Still Avoid War with Iran?\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/buchanan.org\/blog\/can-trump-still-avoid-war-with-iran-137515\">Can Trump Still Avoid War with Iran?<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><strong>A more fundamental question arises: If the United States was not attacked, why is it our duty to respond militarily to an attack on Saudi Arabia?<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President Donald Trump does not want war with Iran. America does not want war with Iran. Even the Senate Republicans are advising against military action in response to that attack on Saudi Arabia\u2019s oil facilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAll of us (should) get together and exchange ideas, respectfully, and come to a consensus \u2014 and that should be bipartisan,\u201d says Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Jim Risch of Idaho.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When Lindsey Graham said the White House had shown \u201cweakness\u201d and urged retaliatory strikes for what Secretary of State Mike Pompeo calls Iran\u2019s \u201cact of war,\u201d the president backhanded his golfing buddy:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s very easy to attack, but if you ask Lindsey \u2026 ask him how did going into the Middle East \u2026 work out. And how did Iraq work out?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Still, if neither America nor Iran wants war, what has brought us to the brink?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Answer: The policy imposed by Trump, Pompeo and John Bolton after our unilateral withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our course was fixed by the policy we chose to pursue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Imposing on Iran the most severe sanctions ever by one modern nation on another, short of war, the U.S., through \u201cmaximum pressure,\u201d sought to break the Iranian regime and bend it to America\u2019s will.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Submit to U.S. demands, we told Tehran, or watch your economy crumble and collapse and your people rise up in revolt and overthrow your regime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Among the 12 demands issued by Pompeo:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">End all enrichment of uranium or processing of plutonium. Halt all testing of ballistic missiles. Cut off Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza. Disarm and demobilize Shiite militias in Syria and Iraq. Terminate support for the Houthi rebels resisting Saudi intervention in Yemen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can Trump Still Avoid War with Iran? A more fundamental question arises: If the United States was not attacked, why is it our duty to respond militarily to an attack on Saudi Arabia? President Donald Trump does not want war with Iran. America does not want war with Iran. 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