Trump's Tuesday deadline for Iran is strategic, not stupid | Opinion

The past few days have felt like a surreal movie.
Take the rescue of an injured U.S. Air Force colonel, a weapons systems officer whose F-15E Strike Eagle was shot down inside Iran on April 3. The Trump administration said he hid alone in a crevasse in a 7,000-foot-high mountainous region, and survived with nothing but a hand weapon, a tracking beacon and a communication device until he was rescued in an operation that by all accounts seems like an extraordinary display of American exceptionalism and military prowess. Thi