Trump’s epic gamble in Middle East

Financial Times: By seeking to overthrow Iran’s hardline regime and reorder the Middle East he has embarked on one of the most brazen endeavours undertaken by a US president in decades. He has done this with an insouciant disregard for international law, and has made only the sketchiest of attempts to justify it to the American people and the world. Rather, he has launched a fateful war of choice. America, the region, and Iran most of all, may come to regret it bitterly if, as so often happens in wars, this one veers off its prosecutor’s script…