PBS News Hour anchor William Brangham and MS NOW host Jonathan Capehart tried on Friday to cast doubt on President Trump’s proclamations of military success. However, to do that, they had to employ a definition of success that would be impossible for any war to achieve.
Making matters worse, The Atlantic’s David Brooks just finished hyping the possibility that Iran will no longer be a regional power, but Brangham was still keen to try to score points against Trump, “But in the interim, Jonathan, we’re still in this position where Iran, although the president says their military has been utterly destroyed, they are showing, in that zero percent that they allegedly have left, remarkable tenacity to punish other Gulf states, to destroy critical oil and gas infrastructure. I mean, analysts have been arguing that what’s been done in Qatar recently has be—could be years undoing. The Iranians don’t seem to be ready to give up this fight yet.”
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