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In a set piece that critics and loyalists alike expected to come more than a month earlier, President Trump finally gave a prime-time address Wednesday laying out his vision for the U.S. military campaign in Iran.

Rather than prepare Americans for a prolonged conflict, the commander in chief put a timeline – albeit a vague one – on Operation Epic Fury. “I can say tonight that we are on track to complete all of America's military objectives shortly, very shortly,” Trump said. “We are going to hit them extremely hard, over the next two to three weeks, we’re going to bring them back to the stone ages where they belong.”

Speaking from the Cross Hall in the White House, Trump used his 19-minute speech address to declare that the war is nearing completion and to stress why it was necessary in the first place. Trump framed the campaign not as the start of a new conflict but as the culmination of decades of Iranian-backed attacks, even as declining polling suggests the public is increasingly skeptical of the mission.

In laying out his case, Trump tied the operation to 47 years of Iranian-backed terrorist proxy attacks, pointing to incidents from the 1983 Beirut bombing to the 2000 attack on the USS Cole to Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, assault.

He also highlighted the operation’s success, reiterating what he has said in numerous interviews and what other administration officials have declared: that the U.S. has three main strategic goals – destroying Iran’s navy, air force, and defense industrial base; degrading its ability to wreak havoc by........

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