A letter to the editor at Talking Points Memo raises an extremely important reason to doubt convicted felon President Trump will actually go through with joining the Israeli attack on Iran.
Reader “PT” writes that Trump “needed something that could chase the parade and the protests off the front page and put him back in a way that was not humiliating to him. Voila! He changed his tune on Iran. Having done that, of course, he’s now doing what he learned to do from reality TV: he’s tuning his daily messages on the topic to keep it front-and-center, and this is accomplished by teasing the final decision for as long as possible, keeping everyone on the edges of our seats while we wait to see what he’s going to do. Given his motivations, though, the last thing he wants to do is to actually send in US military forces. Why? Because then he stops being the center of the story!”
“The center of the story becomes the actual US military forces that are carrying out operations, the actual state of the fight in Iran, etc. Plus: it would let Netanyahu preen as the guy who was so powerful he coerced Donald Trump into supporting Israel’s fight against Iran. In other words, once he does that, he sets the stage for Netanyahu to be the big hero in the media, not Trump. Given that background, Trump simply has to snub Netanyahu and avoid moving the actual military into the center of attention,” the letter continues and damned if that does not ring pretty effing true.
After all, it’s been two days and the Israeli attack’s only going to last so much longer. Shouldn’t the US military have gotten involved already if they were ever going to?