Looking now that the Iranians pulled their punches, hopefully signaling a desire to deescalate. If so, we will see soon enough if Trump interprets the misses that way and reciprocates accordingly. Watched as much MSNBC tonight as much as I could stand, and the show I saw had the talking head & panel goading Trump on his “promise” to obliterate 52 sites in response. They kept demanding to know if Trump was lying about that threat like he lied “thousands of times before.”

No mention that if the war they secretly wish for to prove Trump a war-monger is not consummated thereby only leaving a few smoldering dead Jihadi scumbags as the result, that would be one huge victory for the man they love to hate.