How Close Are We to War with Iran?
4 min readMay 20, 2019
— Waiting for Gulf of Tonkin II
Donald Trump has just sent a carrier battle group into the Persian Gulf, warning that a fight with the United States would “be the official end of Iran.”Do you trust that Trump and the inexperienced sycophants around him can make the sophisticated judgments needed to stay on the knife edges he creates without falling off? As a former Foreign Service Officer, I know I…