We are still pretending not to be in a war that we obviously are. Is anyone going to ask Keir Starmer what Donald Trump’s war aims were, since we were tagging along even as we pretended that we were not? To take out the Supreme Leader? They just elected a new one, of course. To remove Iran’s nuclear weapons programme? Trump had already said that he had obliterated it days earlier, but that one is endlessly reusable, since no such programme has ever existed. To destroy Iran’s military capability? The destruction has been of a girls’ school.
Or to encourage the people to rise up and overthrow the regime? Trump is bringing in the Kurds. In the heady days of Early Corbynism, I used to have to dissuade youths from going to Syria to fight for them. Now it looks as if they themselves are going to be fighting for Trump in Iran, and that though it has tried to bomb Turkey while having to be reminded of Pakistan’s mutual defence agreement with Saudi Arabia. The Gulf monarchies were already on the same side as Israel. Now so are Turkey and Pakistan. That will no doubt do wonders for internal stability. The popular uprisings will be there. And in the United States. And, according to our own definition of these things, in Britain.
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