Robert Malley

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Today in Focus · Iran’s show of strength · 8 Jul 2026 podcast

And we've tried diplomacy.

Of those three, the only one that succeeded at any point was the diplomatic path.

Hopefully that's the lesson.

But in terms of the economic cost, and one of the reasons why the war went on as long as it did is that

I think President Trump felt that it was more sustainable than others did, and he was prepared to bear that cost.

So no war, at least since polling has started in American history, started with as low an approval rating as this one.

It was unpopular when it began, and its popularity only declined as time went on.

I think for most average Americans, they just, you know, the basic facts were staring at them in the face and they understood that this was not a victory.

And you have some, you know, even some pretty conservative, hardline American commentators who said it and who said the U.S.

lost.

We should just limit those losses now and get out.

Trump is... And I think that also weighed on President Trump to some extent.

And there's a division within the Republican Party.

You know, there's a strong MAGA wing of the party that believes this war was misbegotten from the beginning.

It was a betrayal of everything that President Trump had ran on.

Exactly.

This was America last, right?

This didn't at all defend the American interest, they would say.

and probably exaggerate, this was Israel's war.

I think it was Israel's and America's war.

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