Trump delivers contradictory messages on the Iran war

War is a messy and typically unpopular endeavor. Over the years, Americans have grown to distrust the government and how it conducts war. 55 years ago, the Pentagon Papers revealed that it was explicit U .S.policy to mislead citizens on the war in Vietnam, which incidentally, like this thing in Iran, was never officially referred to as a war. It was a so-called police action. And because Americans were misled, the American people did not know of the escalating offensives or the widening fronts of that war.W ...