[Yoric]

Still looking at the details, but this morning, one of the biggest French newspapers was basically headlining (a slightly more polite version of) TACO.

Not a good image for the US around the world, including its (former?) allies, I guess.

[bestouff]

What's à good image of the US nowadays ? Artemis maybe. That's all.

[bambax]

Wait for re-entry.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47582043

[azinman2]

Would a better image be destroying the power plants and water desalination of 90M people?

[Yoric]

I personally would have a better image of the ongoing war if it had any objectives that felt achievable.

Out of curiosity, what do you think is the best realistic outcome for this war, from the US perspective?

[_heimdall]

One should never draw a redline they aren't willing to cross. Trump of all people should know this, he gave Obama shit for years over the uninforced redline with Syria over chemical weapon use.

[kelnos]

To Trump, when someone else does something, it's worthy of reproach, but when Trump himself does it, it's the cleverest 4D chess anyone could ever imagine.

[cosmicgadget]

A more fundamental aspect of his character is that everything his enemies does is bad and stupid and everything he does is good and genius.

So if Obama allows red lines to be crossed, it's totally different. Trump has a long history of bluster and hyperbole and - look - we re-elected him so I guess it can be a winning strategy.

Or it was. Now that people are calling his bluff on tariffs and genocide, there isn't so much winning.

[roncesvalles]

We are in an era of clickbait; mainstream media tends to be sycophantic to the views of its readers.

[Yoric]

FWIW, this was the title around 6am. By 8am, they had changed it to something a little bit more respectable.