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What Obama Got by Talking, Trump Got by Bombing

What Obama Got by Talking, Trump Got by Bombing

BY Uday India

Three Indian sailors killed by American strikes in the Gulf of Oman were still being mourned in New Delhi when Donald Trump signed away the rationale for the war that killed them. At the G7 summit in Versailles on June 18, he put his name to the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding with Iran, a 14-point agreement committing both sides to a permanent end to hostilities, the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, and the dismantling of an economic siege that has run, with pauses and interruptions, since 1979. The architecture underneath it was familiar. Obama built it first.

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