What Is Trump Up To in Iran?

Frank Bruni: Bret, we’re now nearly a week into a war with Iran. At the outset, you argued for the military strikes’ importance in “advancing democratic values” and said that people around the world would recognize that the United States “still stands for freedom.” Do you actually believe that democratic values and freedom were the motivations here? Bret Stephens: They were among the motivations. A democratic Iran that represented the will of its people would not have spent the past 47 years waging war against the Big and Little Satans — that is, the United States and Israel. It would…