For days, Donald Trump — impetuous, intuitive, instinctive, but not known for introspection — grappled with the path forward in Iran, and with his historical legacy.
Would he unleash the GBU-57 bunker-buster to penetrate the mountain covering the vital elements of Iran's nuclear program, thereby allying himself more closely to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and risk drawing the United States into a wider war? Or would he use his trademark bluster and bargaining to force Iran to the negotiating table and buttress his peacemaker self-image?
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