Leon Panetta, the revered former U.S. secretary of defence, is speaking about war.

“Leaders have to understand,” Panetta says in an interview, “that when you send people into war, you better damn well have a very clear mission for what they’re doing and why they’re doing it.”

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“And, if you constantly change that mission … that really begins to screw up what soldiers are thinking. The reason they’re out there, putting their lives on the line. It begins to hurt your own effort.”

This, of course, is Donald Trump’s main problem in the Iran-Israel-America war: Why did he give the order to attack? The mission’s objective seems to change daily. Is it for regime change? Is it to stop Iran from developing nuclear weapons? Is it to stop the spread of terrorism and hate?

Any of those reasons are laudable goals, in this writer’s opinion. Any one of them justifies the action the United States has taken against the maniacal sadists who presently rule Iran. So, defining and defending the war in Iran is mostly Donald Trump’s problem. True.

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