Washington, DC. With Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal, American foreign policy is getting radioactive. “We cannot prevent a nuclear bomb under the decaying and rotten structure of the agreement,” Trump declared with his habitual understatement. The only thing missing was another shot at Barack Obama for bothering to negotiate with the mad mullahs.
Trump had no time for Europe, either. All the air kisses in the world from his French coeval didn’t stop Trump for a second from bidding au revoir to the deal. Nor did the administration pay any heed to dire warnings from Russia or China.
Instead, Trump’s terse speech in the White House suggested that the spirit of George W. Bush has once more begun to inhabit the White House. The claims about Iran secretly working on its nuclear program were reminiscent of the bogus intelligence that Bush relied upon to sell the 2003 Iraq War.
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