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Trump’s words on the Iran war make it easier for his critics to undermine him

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President Trump’s enemies want Americans to think he has no idea what he’s doing in the Iran war — and his own words can make it easy for them to sell that claim.

Like when he says he’s pausing strikes because the Iranians really seem to want to talk — yet Iran’s military never stops striking its neighbors (our allies) and our bases, killing our troops.

It makes perfect sense that he vows serious hurt after Tehran shot missiles at US forces in Jordan, but then he says in the same breath that negotiations will continue.

Sometimes his own people put out a confusing line, like last weekend’s leaks about how US stocks of interceptors were running low, and that’s why we paused bombing late Friday.

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