next-to-no credibility, not just among more than half of the u.s. population but as someone who has had skir vishes on twitter and world summits with allies who embraced publicly and privately some of the world s most brutal dictators. there s something, and i described is it as a white knuckle moment for the country earlier in the week. the decision aside and let s examine that separately, but just the description or the articulation of what donald trump is doing, it s not even clear that s a fact. one of the problems here is that if you re really going to go up against the iranians or any other serious power like this, you need to have all of your ducks in a row. you need to have your allies on board. you need to have the entire bureaucracy and national security establishment rowing in the same direction. you need to have made some phone calls to your allies and put out