Exit Ramp Being Sought??

President Trump appears to have no apparent exit ramp from the attacks on Iran ... 

Wall Street Journal Headline - Exit Iran War

D.M a commentor last week, reported that CNN has an article that stated "Trump might just mirror his domestic approach by declaring victory, walking away and leaving everyone else to deal with the consequences. Trump’s signature move is to tear down established structures before seeing where the pieces fall and finding some way to declare a win." 

But that approach will leave the Iranian mullahs in charge and they will still be left as dangerous as ever, and still holding an estimated 790lbs of highly enriched uranium (with the missiles to deliver it), and if its possible, even more hate in their hearts. So sooner or later either the US and Israel will have to put boots on the ground to seize that uranium stockpile, or repeat these bombing campaigns every 5 to 6 years. 

                             Quotes From A Florida Press Conferences Last Monday Night:

President Trump admitted that his administration was "nowhere near" making a decision on whether to order US troops into Iran as:

"I think the war is very complete, pretty much. We took a little excursion because we felt we had to do that to get rid of some evil. Then, I think you'll see it's going to be a short term excursion." He went on to say: "We've already won in many ways, but we haven't won enough. We go forward, more determined than ever to achieve ultimate victory that will end this long running danger once and for all."

He also added that he wants to ensure Iran cannot develop nuclear weaponry "for a very long time" - which to be honest is a much bigger task, and perhaps not one he will undertake, but rather leave for someone else, that is if any future US president can ever muster such a coalition, after Trumps admin has gone (given the loss of European good will, Trump and Vance have engendered).

So this is attack on Iran seems to be a highly speculative one, one that's definitely degraded Iran militarily, certainly, but not going to have removed the regime, or ushered in prospects of peace in the region. The quotes about having "won" and the "war is very complete, pretty much," and "going to be a short term excursion," are sort of suggesting that President Trump is as CNN suggested "declaring victory," prior to "walking away and leaving everyone else to deal with the consequences".

The election of Khamenei II as the new supreme leader of Iran (“God’s grace became manifest,” supporters chanted in Tehran the morning after Mojtaba Khamenei’s appointment “Khamenei became young again.”), will be as bad as his father, and the Iranian people will suffer even more economic and political degradation, as sanctions, corruption, and internal violence at the hands of their leadership continues apace. 

To be fair to Trump, short of a full ground invasion with a coalition of the willing ala Iraq or Kuwait (but its not Trumps style to build coalitions - he breaks them - or to share the limelight), then its hard to see how a purely aerial war will ever force a regime change, so perhaps this attack was simply the best and only way of degrading Iran's war abilities sufficiently for a few more years, in the hope that tougher sanctions and societal poverty, will force the current regime to change or collapse.