Doyle McManus: Trump's Orwellian doublespeak on Iran
by Doyle Mcmanus, Los Angeles Times
Jan 06, 2020
3 minutes
WASHINGTON - The U.S. missile strike that killed Iranian Quds Force leader Qassem Soleimani was a stunning escalation of the conflict between the United States and Iran - an act of open war in a struggle that has been carried out in the shadows for decades.
Yet President Donald Trump and his aides oddly called the airstrike a "deescalation," as if it were a step toward peace.
"We took action last night to stop a war. We did not take action to start a war,"
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