America is a divided nation, fighting without allies.

While that is surely true, I would bet nearly all of our allies approve, even if they can’t/won’t say so. (Canada already has.)

The Ayatollah was an incompetent moron, leading his nation from riches to poverty, encouraging and funding terrorism throughout the region - including to other muslim countries, and (need I remind?) killing between 5,000 and 10,000 of his countrymen for having the temerity to voice their opinion in public - as only the latest outrage.

It’s good that he is dead, and it’s hard to imagine that what follows will be worse. It might be the same, given the power structure in place, but he was an absolute zealot in every manner of being.

Coalition building takes time, getting a Congressional vote takes time, and Trump would surely fail at the former and it’s not clear he would be successful at the latter. That said, there are times when I have to hold my nose and hope for the best. This is one of them. Shrub’s Iraq adventure was another and it turned out badly. His father’s was one I supported and it went OK until the end when we mysteriously decided not to prosecute it further. (Perhaps, given what happened when Shrub did, he was right?)

Anyway, yes, no allies. Also no busybodies trying to inject their opinion. You know, like the East Wing, or the Kennedy Center, or ICE in Minneapolis, or … At some point he has to get lucky and have something turn out OK, don’t you think?