Trump did nothing to calm fears that he has lost touch with reality when his press secretary, Ms. Leavitt, announced that Trump would make the decision on US participation in a war with Iran within two weeks, since there was still a chance for negotiations. That makes sense. The Zionist crowd in Washington and Tel Aviv are chirping that Iran is just a week away from building a nuke, so Trump wants to delay action until Iran has a nuke?

This would be high comedy in a Monty Python sketch, but Trump is literally playing with nuclear fire. Some suggest he's just doing his art-of-the-deal shtick, but creating uncertainty about his intent to start a new war with Iran strikes me as insane.

Making matters worse is that CIA Director John Ratcliffe reportedly told colleagues he believes Iran is pursuing nuclear weapon capabilities. He compared the situation to football players at the 1-yard line attempting to score a touchdown. This is a complete betrayal of the intelligence community and an insult to Tulsi Gabbard. In March, when Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard briefed Congress that Iran does not have a nuclear weapon, she presented the consensus judgment of the analysts from the CIA, the DIA, the NSA, the Department of State Intelligence and Research, and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. If the CIA did not agree with the briefing presented by Tulsi, Ratcliffe should have issued a written dissent. Tulsi then would have been obliged to inform the Congress that there was no agreement within the intelligence community about Iran and its progress on building a nuke. That did not happen. What we are seeing now is Ratcliffe pandering to Donald Trump and undermining the credibility of Tulsi Gabbard.