Can Trump's tough-guy approach work with Iran? [View all]
(USA Today) -snip- Military experts and philosophers from the ancient Chinese general Sun Tzu to Nobel Prize-winning Colombian novelist Gabriel Garcia Márquez have historically noted that it’s much easier to start a war than to end one. Trump and his team seem to be discovering the hard truth behind that theory as they look for an exit ramp out of a conflict that has already killed thousands of people across the Middle East.
“We have gone from Trump demanding total capitulation to Trump essentially taking Iran’s word for it,” said Brett Bruen, a former diplomat who worked in the White House as director of global engagement under President Barack Obama.
The Trump administration is trying to end the war and extricate itself from a conflict that hasn't gone as planned, has sent oil prices skyrocketing and goes against American public opinion, said Dina Esfandiary, a Geneva-based Iranian national and Middle East policy expert at Bloomberg Economics, which analyzes geopolitical shifts.
"It is trying to test the waters and see what it can get away with without too much political cost within the constraints of the domestic situation in the U.S.," she said.
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