David Schribman: To keep Iran unbalanced, Trump may be employing Nixon’s Madman Theory

David Schribman/The Globe and Mail: “I call it the Madman Theory, Bob,” Mr. Nixon told H.R. (Bob) Haldeman, later his White House chief of staff, during the 1968 presidential campaign. “I want the North Vietnamese to believe I’ve reached the point where I might do anything to stop the war. We’ll just slip the word to them that, ‘for God’s sake, you know Nixon is obsessed with communism. We can’t restrain him when he is angry − and he has his hand on the nuclear button’ − and Ho Chi Minh himself will be in Paris in two days begging for peace.”…