India, April 6 -- Operation Epic Fury Nietzsche exclaimed as German nationalism was on the verge of exploding, "Without cruelty there is no festival." If anyone believes in such an insensitive statement, it is Donald Trump. At the early stages of the US-Iran conflict, he was quoted as having said that he might hit Kharg Island just "for fun." History records Roman emperors torturing human beings merely for "fun." He thought he would hastily eliminate Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, set up a compliant regime in Tehran and return home, like after an excursion. He compared the entire enterprise to an exciting "excursion" for his military team.

But things took another direction from the earliest stages. The elimination of a head of State posed no pr...