Who knows how, but Donald Trump has gotten out of every tight spot he’s fallen into. From the bone spurs that saved him from the draft to the bail outs from a rich daddy; from the sex scandal that his current wife helped him frame as locker room talk to the “Epstein files,” even, nothing has ever quite stuck to take him down.

Not even the Martha Stewart-fronted spin-off of The Apprentice.

He was impeached twice and came back from the dead to win reelection. Now he’s relying on his good fortune to execute a script any reality star would write with himself as the impresario. “Operation Epic Fury” is aptly named. Waging war against Iran is Trump’s biggest gamble, and he expects to win.

Defying the lessons of history about the futility of regime change in Iraq, Afghanistan and Vietnam, to name just a few, Trump is working to decapitate Iran’s brutal theocracy and is daring the people to rise up and take back their government.

Granted, an evil regime has been largely taken down—but why now? And what now? There do not appear to be any coherent plans for the days ahead.

Concocted intelligence about Saddam Hussein’s nuclear weapons led us into a long and deadly war. Secretary of State Marco Rubio now wants us to believe that Iran was working towards nukes, too, but also that the Trump team had to act preemptively because Israel was about to launch its........

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