Why did President Trump take the country to war in Iran without an address from the Oval Office, and without asking Americans to prepare for sacrifice? Peter Robinson puts the question to Hoover Senior Fellow Victor Davis Hanson, who argues that a record of swift action against ISIS and Qasem Soleimani shaped the president’s expectation that Iran would go the same way.
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