Photo: Daniel Torok/via REUTERS
Photo: Daniel Torok/via REUTERS
Ideas
Trump Got This One Right
June 26, 2025 | reading time: 6 Min.
“Why are the wrong people doing the right thing?” Henry Kissinger is supposed to have once asked, in a moment of statesman-like perplexity. That question recurred as Donald Trump, backed by a visibly perturbed vice president and two uneasy Cabinet secretaries, announced that the United States had just bombed three Iranian nuclear sites. It is a matter of consternation for all the right people, who, as Kissinger well knew, are often enough dead wrong.