When the man who wrote The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy says there’s no way out, it reads like a coroner’s report.

Piers Morgan asked John Mearsheimer the direct question. What’s the exit?

“Most of them say that President Trump should quickly declare victory and withdraw from the war. He can do this, but it will be perceived as a humiliating defeat for the US. Moreover, the Iranians may not agree to end the war. And, as I already said, the Iranians have many cards to play. They can inflict significant losses. Therefore, even if we retreat, it’s unclear whether this will solve the problem. The US will still look like it has suffered a humiliating defeat. Therefore, I think President Trump has put himself in a situation where he really doesn’t have a good exit strategy.”

This is a West Point graduate, a former Air Force officer, the scholar who spent two decades mapping exactly how America gets dragged into wars for Israel.

Stay in the war? Humiliation. Retreat? Cosmic humiliation and the eviction from most of the Middle East. Iran holds stronger cards and has only played a few.

Trump promised a generation of winning. He got a generation’s worth of losing compressed into 20 days. The Gulf on fire. The Strait closed to the West. And Bibi in a bunker hinting that maybe the Iranian regime survives after all. Of course it does, the maybe is whether is own regime survives.

Trump  got his war with Iran and history won’t care that it was on orders from Israel. Now he owns the humiliation with “no good exit strategy.”

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