Trump is Losing His Marbles
As Iran Truce Expires and Options Shrivel, Trump Lashes Out
President Trump took aim at Oman, a U.S. ally that has been mediating the talks, as efforts to end a war he started have faltered.
As a crumbling truce with Iran officially collapsed on Monday, President Trump signaled his frustration at his inability to resolve a war that he started but cannot seem to end.
In an interview with Fox News, the president lashed out at an American ally, Oman, that has been trying to mediate negotiations with Iran.
“If Oman gets in the way, we’ll bomb the shit out of them,” Mr. Trump said in a phone interview, according to Fox News’s Trey Yingst.
...Oman... has facilitated talks between the United States and Iran for years and maintains that it is still a neutral mediator...
“I think, ultimately, his threats against Oman are just a reflection of his frustration with the situation he’s created, where he has no good options. He’s just reflexively lashing out, and this time Oman got in the cross hairs.”--Nate Swanson, of the Atlantic Council’s Iran Strategy Project."
Hostilities have now stretched past the six-month mark in a conflict that began with the United States and Israel launching strikes across Iran in February. Administration officials pledged at the time that the war would be over in four to six weeks.
“The tragic part here is that the United States is clawing to try to get back to the state of the Middle East before the war started."--Justin Logan, Cato Institute
Trump called reports of food shortages on the [U.S.S. Lincoln] “fake news.”
Mr. Trump also said the United States could declare the Strait of Hormuz a territory of the United States.
“We control it with the blockade, and I like the idea of declaring it a territory,” he said.
But it was Oman that received the president’s fury on Monday. Iran has said it has been holding talks with Oman on temporarily reopening the strait.
“I don’t think they behaved very well,” he said of the U.S. ally, “but we’d handle them very easily, just like we do other things.”
It was the second time this year the president has threatened the country. In May it emerged that Oman had discussed working with Iran to charge fees for ships to pass through the strait.
“Oman will behave just like everybody else, or we’ll have to blow them up,” Mr. Trump told reporters then. “They understand that. They’ll be fine.”
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