Trump elevates strategic ambiguity to an art form

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Former President Barack Obama‘s former adviser, David Axelrod, tried to jab at President Donald Trump‘s foreign policy yesterday but ended up throwing his old boss under the bus.

“Amazing that in a matter of days we’ve gone from ‘this is not our operation’ to ‘we own the skies over Iran,’” Axelrod posted on Tuesday. “With these proclamations, we also now ‘own’ what WAS an Israeli assault.  We’re thoroughly in it now. What is the strategy here?”

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