I think that his many war-hawk neocon advisors basically ordered the airstrike for him, but he realized that it was insane and called it back. From reporting about the inside of the Administration, I get the sense that everyone is just doing whatever they want, often ignoring what Trump says, and Trump himself is a pretty weak force on most issues. I'm glad that he pushed back on this one, but I still see the machine of war moving constantly in the direction of Iran.
I honestly think Trump does not want any kind of war with anyone. He tried to be friends with kim jong, with putin, stopped the iran thing too.
Right, but Iran knows that and can take advantage of it. The little dog nipping at the elephant, sort of.
But there are a lot of ways to "get even." The more interesting of those the public never hears about.
The out in the open, transparently stupid game Iran is playing isn't going to work to their advantage.