{"id":436902,"date":"2026-05-11T22:10:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T22:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/436902\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T22:10:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T22:10:06","slug":"opinion-the-iran-war-is-a-trap-trump-built-himself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/436902\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion | The Iran war is a trap Trump built himself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"JBC3K4ZJPFFWFHISUJ7XM7WKEQ\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">John R. Bolton was ambassador to the United Nations under President George W. Bush and national security adviser under President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"OCLM4XVZ4NAM7JKX6RJI7O3PQM\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">President Donald Trump is caught in an Iran war trap of his own making. He has for weeks been all-too-visibly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2026\/05\/10\/iran-response-us-proposal-war\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">eager for a deal<\/a> allowing him to declare \u201cvictory\u201d for \u2026 something. Conversely, he seems to deeply fear making a Barack Obama-like nuclear deal, and the inevitable (and justifiable) criticism. Good answers seem scarce, reinforcing his frustration. That was evident on Sunday when, posting online, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2026\/05\/10\/iran-response-us-proposal-war\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">he denounced<\/a> as \u201cTOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE!\u201d Iran\u2019s response to a U.S. framework to end the war. He must feel like George H.W. Bush, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aei.org\/articles\/aggressive-courtship-2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">once described himself<\/a> as \u201cone lonely little guy down here\u201d at the White House. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"John R. Bolton was ambassador to the United Nations under President George W. Bush and national security adviser&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":436903,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-436902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}