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Victor Davis Hanson: Trump’s Iran Deadline—The Midterms Aren’t What Iran Thinks

Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal senior contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos.

Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for the Daily Signal. 

The traditional view among Americans is that the Iran war, I think they feel, was a mistake. Some of the supporters of Iran have been critical. I thought we should have continued the kinetic action longer than the initial 38 days and adopted something similar to Scott Bessent’s “Anaconda Squeeze” earlier, but that happens in all war. 

But is that general consensus that it was either a political or a military mistake, or both, accurate? 

Well, there’s a lot of things going on right now. First of all, why would the Iranian government suddenly say, “We are complaining that you hit a civilian target”? They didn’t really distinguish which, but this is a government that sent hundreds, thousands of drones and missiles into Israel for the express purpose of hitting civilian targets. That’s what they do. They always hit civilian targets. 

So, why would they think the world would be sympathetic to this complaint if it were true that the United States finally is hitting dual-use targets? Dual-use means they can be used for either civilian or military purposes. A bridge, a power grid, an airport, a TV studio, etc. 

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So, that shows you that there is an element of desperation on the part of the Iranians for them, of all people, to say, “It’s not fair that you are hitting civilian targets.” 

Second of all, they said, “This is not fair that you don’t meet us in battle. If you were really strong, you would meet us in battle.” 

Translated, that means, “Well, we really liked it when you were in Iraq and we could give shaped charges to the Ba’athists and then later the radical Islamists to kill you Americans. We really liked it when you fought our type of war in the streets of Fallujah, but you’re not fighting our type of war. You’re fighting an air war where your superior........

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