{"id":1994,"date":"2020-01-07T01:33:04","date_gmt":"2020-01-07T01:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=1994"},"modified":"2020-01-07T01:33:04","modified_gmt":"2020-01-07T01:33:04","slug":"trumps-iran-war-has-begun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=1994","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s Iran war has begun"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“This is how you get a full-scale war that neither side wants. Each hopes to cow the other with violence, but in actuality keeps provoking the other until they\u2019ve crossed a line that nobody is willing to back down from. Given the absolute horror<\/a> that would be a US-Iran war, the decision to kill Soleimani was a gigantic risk.
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I don\u2019t want to be entirely alarmist. Historically, accidental wars are relatively rare<\/a>. Leaders tend to find ways to pull back from the brink while saving face.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But neither Ayatollah Khamenei nor President Trump are particularly trustworthy decisionmakers, to put it mildly. It\u2019s very hard to predict how they\u2019ll handle this crisis, and things could easily get out of hand. The US-Iran war could well get much worse \u2014 and the mere possibility should scare all of us.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.vox.com\/policy-and-politics\/2020\/1\/3\/21048033\/trump-iran-war-qassem-soleimani-retaliation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“This is how you get a full-scale war that neither side wants. Each hopes to cow the other with violence, but in actuality keeps provoking the other until they\u2019ve crossed a line that nobody is willing to back down from. Given the absolute horror that would be a US-Iran war, the decision to kill Soleimani was a gigantic risk.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t want to be entirely alarmist. Historically, accidental wars are relatively rare. Leaders tend to find ways to pull back from the brink while saving face.<\/p>\n

But neither Ayatollah Khamenei nor President Trump are particularly trustworthy decisionmakers, to put it mildly. It\u2019s very hard to predict how they\u2019ll handle this crisis, and things could easily get out of hand. The US-Iran war could well get much worse \u2014 and the mere possibility should scare all of us.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1994"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1995,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994\/revisions\/1995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}