Trump’s credibility problem on Iran
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Stop me if you’ve heard this before: The United States goes to war in a Middle Eastern country starting with the letters “I-R-A,” based on disputed and later-disproven intelligence about that country’s pursuit of devastating weaponry.
Stop me if you’ve heard this before: The United States goes to war in a Middle Eastern country starting with the letters “I-R-A,” based on disputed and later-disproven intelligence about that country’s pursuit of devastating weaponry. It happened two decades ago with Iraq; it’s valid to ask whether it could be happening again with Iran. And it’s a legitimate question in large part because President Donald Trump and his administration have credibility problems of their own making. They’re asking the American people for a huge amount of faith on the most serious of issues, without having put in the work to build that trust. As Trump has increasingly flirted with joining Israel’s strikes on Iran in recent days, he’s argued that Iran has been very close to a nuclear weapon. “I think they were a few weeks away from having one,” he said Wednesday, seemingly referring to the period before Israel first struck Iran’s nuclear program last week.
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