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In Iran Speech, Trump Reminds World How Obama Helped Get Us Into This Mess With His Pathetic Nuclear Deal
On Thursday night, a little over a month into the conflict in Iran, President Donald Trump took to the national airwaves to give an update on how things were going.
From his standpoint, good enough: “Tonight, Iran’s navy is gone. Their air force is in ruins. Their leaders, most of them, terrorist regime they led, are now dead,” he said, according to The New York Times.
“Their command and control of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is being decimated as we speak. Their ability to launch missiles and drones is dramatically curtailed, and their weapons, factories and rocket launchers are being blown to pieces. Very few of them left,” Trump continued.
“Never in the history of warfare has an enemy suffered such clear and devastating large-scale losses in a matter of weeks. Our enemies are losing, and America, as it has been for five years, under my presidency, is winning, and now winning bigger than ever before.”
Now, how that ends remains to be seen; Iran is battered but not fully broken, at least not to the point where it’s something more than a failed state. And forget about what we can negotiate for; it’s unclear at the moment who is left to negotiate with and whether they’re any better than the brutes we’ve eliminated.
But that’s where we are. And while he was at it, Trump reminded how we got here — not just his airstrikes, mind you, but the........