Put aside the cursing, and focus on defeating Iran
What’s needed is a civil version of “What the fuck are you doing?” — not from Trump to Netanyahu but from Netanyahu to Trump. To be followed by a joint effort to assess why this war has so signally failed, avoid exacerbating the failure with a dreadful deal, and resolutely turn the tide
...The result is a president all but imploring Tehran’s ruthless leadership to agree to accept incredibly advantageous terms for what he absurdly calls “peace,” beginning with a memorandum of understanding that, as far as we know, channels billions into Iran’s coffers and does not secure any of the war’s original goals — merely setting a framework for talks on Iran’s nuclear program, the fate of its enriched uranium, its ballistic missile development, support for terror proxies, and use of terrorism worldwide.
These are terms that the regime would have jumped at before the war, that will enable it to stave off any genuine concessions for the foreseeable future, that make the Obama nuclear deal Trump abrogated look hermetic by comparison, and that hang Israel out to dry...
