Trump backed a war meant to break Iran and restore control, but the last 24 hours have left both him and Netanyahu looking anything but in charge. Right, so Donald Trump has triggered the last thing he wanted, and it is not some mystery buried in briefing paper language either, it is sitting right there in the Strait of Hormuz where ships are now moving on the basis of Iranian permission, American promises have started sounding like cheap sales patter, and one Turkish-owned vessel has already gone through after Ankara said Tehran cleared it. I think calling this control might be underselling it a bit actually. That is not what control looks like not really. That is not what victory looks like. That is what a backfire looks like when the people who started the fire are still pretending they are in charge of the smoke with Billy Joel playing in the ...