that if you want to have rational policy the message is essentially to europe. if you want to have rational policy you need to work with us, not against us. trump has taken a deal that was a solid deal and thrown it out the window with the apparent fantasy that he can make a bigger deal, a better deal, a surer deal, a safer deal. because, after all, he s all about the art of the deal. essentially, by holding up fire and fury, the iranians are making the point he is an irrational player, not a rational one, and as a result nobody should trust him. let s talk about the deal. is president trump using a bombastic strategy with iran in the same way he did with north korea? can he be confident that it worked on north korea? well, you know, i think if you go back in the history of american contacts with north korean leaders, back to jimmy carter in 1994 or back to the director of national intelligence, james clapper,
entered the house and hunted down bambi s parents in their night clothes. the jury had just heard a drama of southern gothic proportions. dripping with family greed and hatred. now it was time for an entirely different story. none of the puzzle pieces fit. rick s defense team, including attorney barbara pratt, told the court that the state s case was heavy on fiction, light on facts. they had a puzzle, they had neat little pieces, but the pieces weren t exactly right. the state was so desperate to prove its case, she said, it clung to the word of a jailhouse snitch and career criminal. a fellow that is there to cut himself a deal and get himself some assistance, i guess, in his own case, is not likely to be credible. not only was the snitch not to be believed, the defense told the jurors, but the state was also trying to confuse them about the mystery blood found at the crime scene. the bottom line, said pratt, the dna from that blood cleared their client from the murders.