David Remnick

He has now done this.

It is a strategic disaster on every level.

If anything, it has the potential to speed up Iran's desire to have a nuclear weapon because now, like North Korea, it sees it as the one guarantee it won't be attacked again.

We've ruined our relationships, potentially, with many countries in our NATO alliance.

We've thrown out the window what was left of our global leadership.

I mean, the list goes on here.

Do we leave the region if this is the end of the war?

And I dearly, dearly hope it is.

Do we leave it a more secure place?

Do the Iranian people now trust us after we threatened

to decimate their civilization?

Who talks like this?

It used to be that a president's dignity was called into question when he wore a tan suit to a press conference.

Now we have a president who speaks like that.

I thought you might.

I thought you might.

Well, I read Maggie Haberman and John Swan's reporting in The Times, and it's excellent.

But here's what it says, in essence, that Donald Trump believes who he wants to believe.

He has his own vice president telling him this is a terrible idea.

He has General Kane saying this is a very risky thing that you're doing.