Srilanka, Sept. 12 -- The Trump administration's handling of the conflict with Iran has an apt local simile: That is how Sri Lanka plays cricket these days. Both reveal neither strategy nor conviction, and run on whims. America's masterful mismanagement of Iran has now turned a containable threat into a global contingency.
President Donald Trump has blown hot and cold against the Islamic Republic of Iran, bombed its nuclear sites while the regime negotiators were at the table, and now the bruised Ayatollahs left with a large stockpile of enriched uranium are ever more determined to pursue their nuclear dream.
Since Trump is more amenable to rogue leaders with nuclear weapons, such as North Korea's Kim dynasty, the Ayatollahs would be ri...