David Ignatius on Israel/Iran Conflict: This Is a Consequential Choice That Would Change Donald Trump’s Presidency

‘My fear about a limited military option is that we’d end up with something like Saddam Hussein in Iraq in the 1990s’

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IGNATIUS: “This is a consequential choice that would change Donald Trump's presidency. You can imagine that you'll just go in with a B-2 and drop this bomb and blooey, there goes the Iranian nuclear program, but the follow-on consequences of that, because that would bring the regime into jeopardy, are enormous. Iran, that becomes anarchic, ungoverned, is a different kind of danger for the region. My fear about a limited military option is that we'd end up with something like Saddam Hussein in Iraq in the 1990s. We waged a limited war in 1991, the first Gulf War, to get the Iraqis out of Kuwait and then pulled back. President George H.W. Bush thought, let's not get into a deep war there.”

 

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