Little about the U.S. attacks on Iran makes sense.
I will leave it to regional experts to explain the rationale behind and the impact of the strikes that U.S. President Donald Trump launched last week in coordination with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. As usual, my goal is to focus on the potential impacts on this part of the world and what it says about U.S. foreign policy ¡ª especially at a time of supposed tectonic shifts in U.S. thinking.
The U.S. and Israel have launched ¡°major combat operations¡± against the regime in Iran. After assembling the largest armada in recent history, Trump initiated ¡°Operation Epic Fury¡± (who comes up with these names?). Airstrikes claimed dozens of casualties, among them Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who ruled the country with an iron fist for 40 years. Also reportedly killed were more than 150 people at a girls¡¯ school, most of them students.
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