A glum Robert Kagan, one of the architects of the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq and husband of the notorious Victoria Nuland, was interviewed on PBS on Monday, May 11, one day after his article appeared in The Atlantic, in which he concluded that President Donald Trump had no option in Iran other than defeat.
“Why are you so sure of that defeat?” PBS interviewer Amna Nawa asked him.
“Well, I just don’t see what options Donald Trump has or is willing to undertake in order to open up the strait,” Kagan replied. “And if Iran ends this conflict, as it currently is, in control of the strait, it really completely changes the situation in the Gulf. It puts Iran in the driver’s seat. It gives Iran enormous leverage, not only in dealing with the United States, but in dealing with the rest of the world.