196. Trump’s Iran Deal: One Big American Failure?

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Grading Trump Against His Own Six Goals

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Rather than debating the deal on abstract strategic terms, Katty Kay goes back to the source: Trump's own video address on the night he launched the operation, in which he listed six specific goals. Destroy the missiles — not achieved. Destroy the proxies — not achieved. Regime change — not achieved. Annihilate the navy — partly achieved. Raze the missile industry — the intelligence community says about half done. Prevent Iran from getting nuclear weapons — the jury is still out ^{[1] — Katty Kay "Trump announced six goals for the Iran operation: destroy the missiles, destroy the proxies, achieve regime change, annihilate the navy, ra…" 15:40 Play} . By Trump's own stated benchmarks, the operation achieved maybe two out of six goals in any substantial way. Katty Kay calls it an emperor-has-no-clothes moment. She also recommends The New York Times Daily for a heartbreaking exploration of the war's human cost on the world's poorest countries — people in South Sudan and Somalia dying because of fertiliser shortages and shut-down aid programmes caused by the conflict.