President Donald Trump has offered multiple explanations for the strikes on Iran. Freedom for the Iranian people. A deal in two or three days. A war lasting four or five weeks. Even potential successors to take power — who he later said were killed.
“It’s wartime jazz,” says Wall Street Journal reporter Alexander Ward. “He shoots first…and figures out the political objectives as he watches things unfold.”
Is there a coherent strategy behind the attack on Iran or is it being improvised in real time?
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