According to the former president of the Council on Foreign Relations, reporting that Donald Trump is now fishing about for suggestions on what to do in Iran after he launched a war on the country and killed its leader is yet another example of his “undisciplined” leadership.
And that puts him in a precarious position politically.
Appearing on MS NOW’s “Morning Joe,” longtime diplomat Richard Haas expressed concern that the war on Iran will become open-ended due to lack of planning from the Trump administration and one slip-up could put the president in a no-win situation.
“A word comes to mind for me to describe what's going on now, it's undisciplined,” he told co-host Jonathan Lemire. “As disciplined as the United States has been on the military side of this war, we have been undisciplined on the foreign policy and political side. We have yet to make the case to the country, in the world as to why this war had to happen.”
“Now, the president's been all over the place as to U.S. objectives,” he elaborated. “And in the clip you showed at the beginning of the show, if the complete realization of all U.S. objectives is going to happen before this war ends, this war is not going to end until literally the Iranian regime falls. That's not something under our control. That might not just be a question of days or weeks, that could be months or years.”
He warned, “And that's the danger; this could be open-ended. And by not consulting with Congress or the American people, the president has put himself on a high wire without a net below. And likely one of two things are going to happen, Jonathan –– Either he's going to have to walk back [his] ambitious war aims, or he's going to lose support. I don't think history suggests you can sustain support for a war that is costly, and doesn't seem to be on a trajectory of success.”
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