How ceased is the fire, really?
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Dispatches from Donald Trump’s Forever War:
The U.S. launched strikes Tuesday on Iran in retaliation for the downing of a U.S. Apache helicopter near the Strait of Hormuz, according to U.S. Central Command.
The strikes, which the military said were carried out in self-defense, were directed by President Trump. “The mission is a proportional response to unjustified Iranian aggression,” Centcom, which oversees U.S. forces in the Middle East, said in a statement.
The U.S. conducted three waves of attacks, all targeting Iranian air defenses and radar sites near the Strait of Hormuz, according to a senior U.S. official.
Trump hadn’t been convinced of the need to retaliate against Iran earlier in the day, U.S. officials said. In a phone call Tuesday morning with The Wall Street Journal, he played down the incident—repeatedly saying that it “wasn’t a big deal”—and stressed that the pilots weren’t seriously injured.
He changed his mind after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine recommended military action during a briefing at the White House, the officials said. Hegseth and Caine provided Trump with updated information about the Iranian Shahed drone that struck the U.S. helicopter. When asked for comment, the Pentagon said in a statement that it didn’t discuss internal deliberations involving the president and his military advisers.
The Apache was likely hit by the drone off the coast of Oman while it was patrolling the area, U.S. officials said.
I assume somebody at the Quincy Institute is currently working on a column explaining that Pete Hegseth, who ended up as Secretary of Defense for reasons nobody can explain, is polluting Donald Trump’s pristine non-interventionist mindset,