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When President Donald Trump launched his war of aggression on Iran earlier this year, he suggested it could end in as little as “two or three days.” The toppling of Iran’s government, he predicted, might take a little longer: within “four to five weeks.”
As of today, the U.S. has been at war against Iran for six months. And there is no end in sight. The White House says it’s not even on speaking terms with Iran after an always-shaky ceasefire collapsed last month.
Trump’s quagmire in Iran is one of the most shameful acts of his presidency. He has failed at what he haughtily presumed would be an easy victory — and left Iran strategically stronger and the world worse off than when he started. And what makes it doubly tragic is how much of this catastrophe was foreseeable. At the heart of his failure was a total incuriosity about the plausibility and the likely consequences of the “little excursion” he decided to embark upon.
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It’s quite the charge coming from someone who made a career of promoting skepticism of scientific data and spreading misinformation, argues Hayes Brown.
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Six months into the war with Iran, traffic through the world’s busiest oil route has fallen from hundreds of vessels a day to a handful and sent prices sharply higher. Read more from Soorin Kim and Emily Hung.
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“My father, Raymond Taylor (R.T.) Bray, served on the USS West Virginia with Doris (Dorie) Miller. They were at Pearl Harbor together.
Two weeks after the Japanese surprise attack in 1941, Dad wrote a riveting account of the bombing. Among the things he recorded were that Miller “deserves considerable credit” for his actions and that he had “carried an unconscious man under each arm” to safety. He also wrote: “I think he carried out more than any other four men together.” When my father spoke to me about his experience, he mentioned Miller with awe ...
There is no defensible reason a carrier slated to be named after Doris Miller should be renamed to honor a president who didn’t serve because of bone spurs.”
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This week on “Clock It,” Symone Sanders Townsend and Eugene Daniels are joined by fundraiser Rufus Gifford to discuss what makes a Democratic candidate viable, why donors are not giving to the DNC like they used to and how the Democratic Party should start thinking about who their presidential candidate will be in 2028. Listen now.
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