In a 19-minute primetime address, President Donald Trump laid out his case for conducting military operations against Iran, casting it as an long overdue step to eliminate a nuclear threat, but he gave few specifics of the plan for ending the war.
As some commentators pointed out shortly after the speech, the president’s rhetoric even signaled an escalation, not an immediate pullback from the month-long conflict.
The president talked of coming to some sort of deal with what remained of the Iranian leadership, a group that he called “less radical and much more reasonable.” But he threatened furhter attacks obver the next two- to three- weeks that would “bring them back to the stone ages, where they belong.”
“Yet if during this period of time, no deal is made, we have our eyes on key targets,” he said. “If there is no deal, we are going to
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