Donald Trump’s Case for War Fails to Mention How to Win It .
Donald Trump’s Case for War Fails to Mention How to Win It . The President poses an existential question: Can everything be going according to the plan with Iran if there is no plan? | Susan B. Glasser | A month ago, when Donald Trump pitched the United States into a war against Iran, he announced the decision to the American people in a brief eight-minute video, which was sent out over social media, in the dead of night, on a weekend. On Wednesday evening, with the conflict he unleashed having upended the global economy and having failed to dislodge the Iranian government that he initially vowed to topple, Trump finally made his case to the public in a prime-time address to the nation. He might as well not have bothered. In the end, the best thing that can be said about the speech was that Trump did not follow through on his threat, made earlier that day, to withdraw the United States from nato. But there was little news about a conflict that now seems likely to continue for at l...