Posted on 04/01/2026 5:26:54 PM PDT by goodnesswins
President Trump Addresses Nation on War with Iran
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For commentary...
Was just thinking about the thread for tonight’s speech. Thank you.
So glad he is doing this.
Hopefully, 🚫TDSers. 🙏
All right. Good to be here.
Marco Rubio has come a long way.
He reminds me of Paul Ryan, but not smarmy.
Video
Kamala Harris slams Trump ahead of his Oval Office address Iran
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How in the world does Rubio remind you of Eddie Munster?
Here we go...standing, not seated
There will, of course, be immediate, intermediate and long-term reactions to tonight’s speech. The immediate reaction will be predictable according to the political party of the reviewer and the action of the reviewer within his party.
Across the country, I expect the immediate reaction to be positive. I expect the president to spend a good portion of his address extolling the undeniably brilliant tactical achievements of our armed forces. This will undoubtedly stimulate across the board acknowledgment and the commander-in-chief will benefit along with his Armed Forces. And legitimately so, after all he has directed them and he has created them and restored them to an effective, almost astonishing, fighting force.
But the president must move beyond this, he must tell us what he will do about Iran, what he will do about movement through the Strait of Hormuz, and what he believes he has done about Iran’s nuclear capabilities. In other words, is he going to continue the war or cede the fate of Hormuz to the enemy and go home declaring victory?
Will the president seek to convince us that Iran’s nuclear capacity has been permanently destroyed and therefore we can declare victory. That will be a harder sell in the intermediate and long-term when we contemplate that the administration claimed brands nuclear capability to be “permanently obliterated” by the initial strike a year ago. Yet it was necessary to do it again.
Now, we will no doubt be told that regime that was in place to reconstitute a nuclear bomb building program has itself been replaced by different people when our airpower decapitated the first rank of rulers. At the intermediate and longer-term level of review, the assurances that we will receive tonight on that score from the president might well fail to stand critics of history.
The president must also tell us about the immediate future of the Strait of Hormuz because that influences, perhaps even dictates, the direction of the world’s economy. If the oil does not flow, a worldwide recession is believed by many to be inevitable.
It is the president going to abandon control of the Strait to a still undeniably belligerent regime in Iran? Indeed, control of the Strait of Hormuz is really synonymous with regime change. Without regime change, to control over her movements. Without control over Hormuz, the reconstituted forces in Tehran remain nearly as inviolate and protected against invasion as if it had acquired the bomb in time.
It is hard to believe that the president can abandon the Strait of Hormuz and still legitimately go home and claim victory.
The president is also expected to declare his displeasure with NATO. It is important that we understand that the consequences of breaking up NATO are profound and potentially devastating to the security of the United States. The president is justifying breaking up NATO out of pique, history will judge him harshly.
He seems different.
Marking.
Very serious.
Thanks for setting up this thread...
Providing the list of “why”. Good.
Starts with congratulations to the moon-bound astronauts. Pivots briefly to Venezuela then gets into the necessity to challenge Iran.
Thanks
Going to be interesting...
Obama gave them green green cash.
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