War with Iran?

[Dill]

(07-23-2019, 11:36 AM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: Iran is responsible for their own actions.  This apparent abdication of responsibility on the part of Iran is odd.  They just committed state sponsored piracy and yet the blame is on Trump?  I suppose the argument is along the lines of Trump forcing their hand.  Just wondering when we get to hold Iran responsible for what they actually do, what line do they have to cross before they start being culpable?

My question was not about morality, but about the direction of potential chains of consequences. Those consequences will go forward regardless of whom some Americans deem "responsible" for Iran's actions.  And regarding the potential chain of consequences, it is not clear at all that every one will see Iranian "piracy" as the singular cause of their increased costs of defense. They may not care at all whether Iran is "ultimately responsible for its own actions," if they didn't have to pay those added costs before Trump trashed the Iran deal, and now they do.

To put this another way, there is a kind of political analysis which focuses first of all on what is happening, understanding the logic of events, separate from questions of whom is "good" or "bad." That's what I was looking for here. 

This is how policy planners "think ahead" when they are developing policy. They want to know what the likely effects of their actions will be. Inability to do that usually leads to failure and blame.