a day ago
PETER HITCHENS: Don't celebrate this ultra-violence. Trump's broken all the rules and plunged us into a forever war
Well, yes, it may be that it will work this time. Perhaps the Angels of Peace and Love will float down onto the arid plains and jagged mountains of ancient Persia, borne on the wings of a B2 bomber, or riding on the fins of a bunker-busting bomb.
It is about time one of these high explosive interventions in the Near East turned out well. Just because everything went wrong in Suez, Baghdad, Kabul, Damascus and Tripoli, there's no reason to be sure it won't work this time. Operation 'Midnight Hammer' may have hit the nail on the head. But there is good reason to be cautious.
