The President’s Iran Strategy and the Drive-By Media Distortion of It

RUSH: And now the Drive-By Media is saying that Trump is indecisive, can’t pull the trigger, doesn’t know what he’s doing. They’re also out there saying that this this is Trump doing an Obama. The Drive-Bys are actually ripping Obama today in order to rip Trump. You know what they’re saying? “This is no different than Obama drawing a red line for ISIS and then not doing anything when ISIS crossed the red line.” I mean, it’s gotten to be pretty bad when they’re willing to rip Obama in order to be able to say Trump is doing the same thing.

Jack Keane is a retired four-star general in the Army. He’s a Fox News military analyst, and he was on Varney & Co. today, and the question he got was this: “Any idea why there was a stand-down? Why did Trump call back these strikes?”

KEANE: I have more than an idea. I know what happened. The president planned to conduct a strike, directed that strike, and it was largely against the means that delivered the blow to knock down our drone. In other words, radar missile command-and-control, et cetera. But we see initial information that followed the president’s instincts. If you remember when he was in the Oval Office he said, “You know, my instincts tell me that this could have been a mistake, possibly.” But later they got information that confirmed just that, that the Iranian national leadership was furious with the tactical commander who shot down the drone, ’cause they clearly did not want that provocation to take place. Based on those facts, new information to the president, he called off the strike.

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