Huh. What a surprise. It turns out not to be easy to slap a country and make it do what you want.

Trump insists he’s willing to wage war on Iran “forever.”

But just days into the fight, many of those around him are already itching to get out.

Just days, eh? So what were they thinking just days ago? That Iran would go belly-up like a giggling puppy? That it would be a very fun day out and then all would go back to normal?

“It’s a political risk, no ands, ifs or buts,” one Trump adviser said of an attack that the president has forecast could continue for weeks. “Let’s just hope something doesn’t go really wrong. Because if that happens, it’s going to be a problem.”

Jesus christ. What do they think going really wrong looks like? What did they think this was going to look like?

Those troubling dynamics are only likely to worsen as the death toll rises and the risk of a wider regional war remains front and center, allies and advisers have warned, further jeopardizing Trump and Republicans’ already-grim chances of avoiding a wipeout in November’s midterms.

Also – by the way – just a tiny little additional fly in the ointment here – people are being killed. The fact that “the death toll rises” isn’t just a troubling dynamic for Trump’s whatever, it’s people being killed.

“What’s going to matter to normal people is where we are three to four months from now,” a Trump adviser said. “And as always, it’s the same: Is the price of electricity going down, are the price of groceries going down?”

For sure. Normal people don’t care about people being killed, they care about the price of groceries.