Mara Liasson
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He didn't try to convince the American people or lay out his case for why this war was necessary.
He's just hoping he can succeed.
It's possible he can walk away at any time, can call it a success, because once again, he's degraded Iran's
capacity to commit terror acts or to develop a nuclear weapon.
So this is Trump's modus operandi.
He creates his own reality.
He kind of, you know, barrels through.
And so far, it's worked for him.
I don't know when that string runs out.
It's very much go it alone.
The U.S.
is doing this without any allies except for Israel.
And he has made it very clear in the past he doesn't think the U.S.
needs allies, that allies are more of an encumbrance than a help.
European leaders applauded the end of the Iranian regime, if that's what we're seeing, but they still didn't want to get involved in the military effort.
Well, when you hear administration officials talk about how the president has reacted to these events, the answer probably is yes.
They describe him as being on kind of a roll.
He really has felt good about his use of military force.
He's now used force a number of times.
This is the president who ran on no more foreign wars, and I think he's bombed seven countries.