Neocons Got What They Want in Iran. They Still Want More.

The Iran war has not exactly been a roaring success. But its backers are eager for more regime change. Just look at Lindsey Graham.

“Donald J. Trump saved the world from real chaos,” Senator Lindsey Graham told Fox Business’s Maria Bartiromo on Sunday. “Thank God Trump did this.”

What did Trump do? Graham and Bartiromo were only taking up half of the screen, so you could see for yourself: smoke rising from a bombed oil refinery and a compound of some sort being targeted—and taken out—by an airstrike. If you were to expand your search slightly outside the confines of Fox News, you would find other images of what Trump is doing. A New York Times forensic analysis found that a U.S. airstrike hit a girls’ school, killing more than 200—many of them children. Tehran, Iran’s capital, has been shrouded in toxic black smoke and rain for over a day, a result of the Israeli attacks on oil refineries. “Something like a black monster has swallowed the sky over Tehran,” a 27-year-old told Time. “It’s as if all the cars and the street pavement have been coated in black paint.” The air, she continued, was “unbreathable.”

Those airstrikes have killed thousands of civilians, but there are no signs that the regime is on the verge of toppling, let alone giving in to Trump’s demand of an........

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