Open this photo in gallery: Bombing civilians can often mobilize support even for deeply unpopular governments.ARASH KHAMOOSHI/The New York Times News Service Ian Buruma is the author of numerous books, including Year Zero: A History of 1945, and most recently, Spinoza: Freedom’s Messiah. We still do not know how much damage last month’s U.S. air strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities caused. “I believe it was total obliteration,” U.S. President Donald Trump bragged at the NATO summit in June. But an early U.S. intelligence report suggests that Iran could begin enriching uranium again in a few months; the International Atomic Energy...