When hawks surround a chicken.

Let me preface this post by saying this: I despise and hate wars, and I believe that countries should avoid going to war with each other at all cost. Having said that, I hope that Americans realize what a coward they have as a president.  Mr. trump always talks a good game, but like all bullies he is actually afraid of his shadow. 

Consider what happened today with Iran. They shot down an American drone, and they declared to the world that they wanted to do it. Our loud mouth president first declared that he might have something cooking for Iran and that they would be sorry, but then, later on, he backed down and said that they might have made a mistake. Maybe they didn't mean to do it he declared. He tried to play down  the importance and seriousness of what the Iranians did, but no one is buying it.

The problem with Mr. trump's helter- skelter foreign policy is that it has given us moments like this. His hatred and jealousy of Barack Obama caused him to tear up the nuclear agreement with Iran, and now we are seeing the folly of that misguided decision. Iran is ramping up their ability to build up their nuclear program, and they are behind the attacks of ships carrying oil in Middle East. The sanctions put in place by the United States is hurting their economy, and like the North Koreans, the only way they know how to lash out and get our attention is to do what they are doing now.   

Iran says that the American drone was flying over their airspace, but the United States denies it. Of course given this administration's penchant for misrepresenting the facts, it is hard to tell the American people to trust what their government is saying over what the Iranians are telling us.   

Unfortunately this might not end well. Because while trump might be a coward who doesn't want any of the Iranians, the people around him like John Bolton, Lindsey Graham and Tom Cotton are all itching to go to war with Iran. Graham has such a hard on for Iran ,that he probably closes his eyes and sees Ayatollahs in his most intimate moments.

Trump foolishly surrounded himself with these hawks, and now he is bound by the consequences of their actions.