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Trump pushes back on mounting criticism about his Iran war battle plan as conflict spreads

Trump strode back into office last year on an “America First” pledge to keep the U.S. out of the sort of “forever wars” that bogged down some of his recent White House predecessors. Central to his foreign policy outlook dating to his first campaign has been his call to “abandon the failed policy of nation building and regime change.”

He echoed this call during a visit to Saudi Arabia last year, saying that “so-called ‘nation-builders’ wrecked far more nations than they built — and the interventionists were intervening in complex societies that they did not even understand themselves.”

But now Trump finds himself in a war of his own choosing that's spurring concern the U.S. could be dragged into another prolonged conflict in the Middle East.

currently.att.yahoo.com - Trump pushes back mounting criticism

An analyst from Brookings was on the Beeb tonight. She said the constantly shifting justifications for this war tell her there is no plan. No plan for now. No plan for later.

Trump the Perfect will know the plan, when "Bibi" tells him what it is.

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