Trita Parsi

They just want to destroy as much of Iran's infrastructure, industrial base as possible in order to eliminate Iran as a geopolitical player in the region.

What comes afterwards, what it does for the regional stability is of far lesser concern to the Israelis.

That is not the American goals or interest in this war.

But because Trump doesn't have a plan,

He's just following what the Israelis.

Absolutely.

First of all, you're totally right about your previous comment.

That is, the Israelization of American warfare could not happen without the consent of decision makers in the United States.

And those decision makers already have shown prior to this an inclination and going in that direction.

And I've also heard even before during the Gaza war that there were people in the Pentagon that were

rather happy to see the Israelis deliberately destroy the norms around the use of force, because that would open up the U.S.

's ability to conduct a potential war with China in a much different way than it otherwise would.

Undoubtedly, there are people in Washington who have been quite favorable in going in this direction in the first place.

So you're right about that.

On your second point, Trump has already admitted this.

He said that in interviews two days ago, that he's going to bomb them back to the Stone Age.

And then if they rebuild, the next president will have to go in and bomb them again.

That is mowing the lawn.

That is the very essence of mowing the lawn.

And this is precisely why previous presidents actually didn't do it, because all of the gaming showed that this is the situation we would end up in.