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"We're offering a very fair and reasonable DEAL, and I hope they take it because, if they don’t, the United States is going to knock out every single Power Plant, and every single Bridge, in Iran."

A not very old folk saying: ‘‘When you’re up to your arse in alligators, it’s hard to remember that your original goal was to drain the swamp.’’

Asked on Wednesday if he would reconsider his decision to pull the United States out of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato), Donald Trump said ‘‘it’s beyond reconsideration. I just think it should be automatic.’’

The Iranians know they have won, but President Trump doesn’t get it yet.

Still not four full weeks into the war, and already Donald Trump’s "short-term excursion" — decapitate the Iranian regime with a surprise attack and impose harsh terms on the defeated survivors — has morphed into a global economic crisis and a region-wide war that could destroy the wealth of all the countries on both sides of the Gulf.

In Quebec the English-speaking minority used to call them ‘‘tongue-troopers’’: the government functionaries who come around to check that the French on signs in shops is in a typeface twice as big as the English.

In 1953, Ray Bradbury, an American writer, published a book entitled simply Fahrenheit 451.

Donald Trump is caught in the trap that he helped to build, and he is starting to flail against his fate.

Donald Trump’s vision for how the war against Iran should end is simple: "Unconditional surrender."

The Trump/Netanyahu war in the Middle East will not spread any further, and nothing going on there threatens our collective existence.