David Ignatius: Trump Is Erratic in His Course, He Cannot Figure Out How to Handle the Iran War

IGNATIUS: “So, Joe, this is the war that Donald Trump just can't figure out a way to end. It seems pretty obvious that he wants the exit ramp, that he felt that the time to settle this and get past the economic difficulties that were growing more obvious for the country if financial markets had come, but he hasn't been able to do it yet. He's erratic in his course. He'll declare the strait open, and then he'll blockade it. He'll, as in this case over the weekend, fire on and seize an Iranian vessel that he thinks is trying to transit the strait. And as you say, it's as if he's buffeted back and forth between a desire to be strong as George W. Bush was in the first days of the Iraq war, surge in, declare a mission accomplished, but a fear of being weak as Jimmy Carter was perceived by not being sufficiently tough. His negotiators are proceeding, as near as we can tell, toward a meeting that could begin tonight in Islamabad for a new version of a deal that, as I look at the elements, isn't all that different from the famous JCPOA, the agreement that President Obama's negotiators struck with Iran in 2015. So it's a very strange place for him to be. His behavior is so erratic.”

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David Ignatius: Trump Is Erratic in His Course, He Cannot Figure Out How to Handle the Iran War‘It seems pretty obvious that he wants the exit ramp’News & PoliticsEXCERPT:IGNATIUS: “So, Joe, this is the war that Donald Trump just can't figure out a way to end. It seems pretty obvious that he wants the exit ramp, that he felt that the time to settle this and get past the economic difficulties that were growing more obvious for the country if financial markets had come, but he hasn't been able to do it yet. He's erratic in his course. He'll declare the strait open, and then he'll blockade it. He'll, as in this case over the weekend, fire on and seize an Iranian vessel that he thinks is trying to transit the strait. And as you say, it's as if he's buffeted back and forth between a desire to be strong as George W. Bush was in the first days of the Iraq war, surge in, declare a mission accomplished, but a fear of being weak as Jimmy Carter was perceived by not being sufficiently tough. His negotiators are proceeding, as near as we can tell, toward a meeting that could begin tonight in Islamabad for a new version of a deal that, as I look at the elements, isn't all that different from the famous JCPOA, the agreement that President Obama's negotiators struck with Iran in 2015. So it's a very strange place for him to be. His behavior is so erratic.”Video filesFullCompactSort byDateSummaryRelevancePopularityPer page81216Audio filesFullCompactSort byDateSummaryRelevancePopularityPer page81216Recipient e-mailMessage (optional)Preview

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