Threaten an animal and take the risk.

Animals are typically most dangerous when they feel their survival, offspring, or resources are at risk. Understanding these triggers can help you avoid or de-escalate a potentially life-threatening encounter.

Now we have put Iran in that position and what they would not have done in the past, they may well try to do in the future.

We are facing the results of bombs over diplomacy and its long-term consequences. We have demonstrated that the adversary has nothing to gain through restraint.

We have sent the wrong message to the world, something to be expected given we have put the wrong person in charge.

It will take decades to recover, if at all. The world is at greater risk, not less.