Retiring Guy's Digest: Trump's War of Whimsy on Iran: From "yours to take" to "unconditional surrender"

Sunday, March 8, 2026

Trump's War of Whimsy on Iran: From "yours to take" to "unconditional surrender"

Headline: Letters from an American, 3/7/2026

Heather Cox Richardson writes:

As Alex Leary and Vera Bergengruen of the Wall Street Journal observed, the demand for unconditional surrender was quite a shift from Trump’s original promise to the people of Iran that the future is “yours to take,” or even his early claim that he was hoping to knock out Iran’s nuclear facilities. Trump’s shift highlighted that there appears to have been very little planning for what would happen after U.S. and Israeli bombs began to rain on Iran.

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