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Trump Won the Battle, but Will He Take Iran?

Trump Won the Battle, but Will He Take Iran?
An oil facility is seen at Khark Island, Iran, on the shore of the Gulf, on March 12, 2017. Atta Kenare/AFP via Getty Images
Victor Davis Hanson
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This is a lightly edited transcript of a March 23 segment of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words” podcast from Daily Signal.
We’re concluding the third week of the Israeli-United States effort to emasculate Iran, and we’re, sort of, in a standoff period. I think people have compared Iran to the black knight in the old Monty Python movie. The more that he loses a leg and arm, the more he thinks that it’s just a scratch.
Victor Davis Hanson
Victor Davis Hanson
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Victor Davis Hanson is a classicist and military historian. He is a professor emeritus of classics at California State University, a senior fellow in classics and military history at Stanford University, a fellow of Hillsdale College, and a distinguished fellow of the Center for American Greatness. Mr. Hanson has written 17 books, including “The Western Way of War,” “Fields Without Dreams,” “The Case for Trump,” and “The Dying Citizen.”