RetiredU.S. Army Col. Douglas MacGregorsaid in an interview on Tuesday that the prevailing claim has been that the Israelis misled President Donald Trump into the disastrousIran War— and had the president listened more to his advisers like Vice President JD Vance, he may have never gone to war.
“But the truth is that there’s a mountain of evidence that, like President Lyndon Johnson, Trump and his inner circle, including Vance, were really driving military action and escalation from the beginning,” he said, citing his sources.
He said Trump seemed to reject the advice from anyone in or out of uniform who said the war would turn into a boondoggle.
Judge Andrew Napolitano, the host of Judging Freedom, saidif there was a member of Trump’s team who was opposed to the war, they lacked the “personal fortitude” to say anything.
MacGregor said Trump and his administration incorrectly believed that Iran could fall by the use of air power alone, and he said he believes this war will turn out to be the end of the political careers of those involved.
He said Trump cannot blame the war on the Israelis, because “whether he likes it or not, he will be held responsible.”
MacGregor reminded Napolitano that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu does not care if the Iran war destroys the economic lives of millions of Americans because he has one goal, and that is complete dominance over the Middle East, and he cannot achieve that without the U.S. military.
“In order to disengage from this tragedy, at some point, we are going to have to divorce the Israelis in some way, and I think Netanyahu is going to hang on as long as he can, but it's going to be necessary,” he said. “Even the puppets on the Hill, as well as in the White House, are going to have to back away from Israel.”
Danny Citrinowicz, who served 25 years in IDF intelligence,posted:
Iran will not hand Trump a victory picture, because they are Iran.And Trump will not settle for anything short of the appearance of victory, because he is Trump.
Source: Trends in the News
