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17 June 2026
Iran Found Trump’s Bone Spur 16JUN26
THE ART OF THE DEAL
SO the author is one of the fascist ass licking drumpf/trump sycophants that supported the neo-nazi fascist drumpf/trump-vance administration's and the gop / greed over people-republican party's illegal and immoral war on Iran. I hope he and they never lose the vision of blood dripping off their hands. From the New York Times.....
Iran Found Trump’s Bone Spur
June 16, 2026
Opinion Columnist
Iran’s military leaders have greeted the cease-fire agreement with President Trump as a triumph, crowing that “through the imposition of their divine and iron will” they had “humiliated American and Zionist enemies.”
Mostly, they’re right.
Mostly, because it’s worth remembering that the current regime in Iran is far less formidable than it was before the Hamas assault on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. Back then, Iran had potent allies and proxies in Syria, Lebanon, Gaza and Yemen. Its nuclear program was intact and steadily accumulating ever larger quantities of highly enriched uranium. It had a powerful military-industrial base, a weak but functional economy and a government that — for all its repressiveness — was internationally recognized as legitimate.
Today, much of that is either gone or diminished. Iran is no longer within sprinting distance of a bomb. Its ally in Syria was deposed. Hezbollah, Hamas and the Houthis have lost much of their fighting strength. The Iranian rial is the world’s most worthless currency. The leadership rules an unhappy population that — outside of die-hard loyalists — would almost certainly overthrow it if given the chance. Its latest ballistic missile salvo against Israel failed to land a serious single blow. Its blockade of the Strait of Hormuz strained, but did not strangle, the world’s energy markets.
Those are real achievements against an evil, ambitious regime. Yet the outcome of war rarely rests on a tally of relative strength. War is a contest of wills. And in that contest, the hard men of Tehran appear to have scored a decisive victory over the vain man of Washington.
I write this as someone who supported the war from the outset and hoped to see Trump carry it through to a decisive result: if not regime change, then at least a deal in which Iran would be forced to relinquish all of its enrichment capabilities and access to the Strait was unfettered. Those goals were well within the president’s reach, particularly if he had continued to attack Iran’s military-industrial infrastructure until it agreed to terms, rather than conducting most of the negotiations after the fighting had mostly stopped.
But Trump got spooked after the regime didn’t instantly crumble and energy prices shot up. He then effectively abandoned the war he had started after less than six weeks of sustained combat — combat in which the United States lost fewer service members than in the 1983 invasion of Grenada. He compounded the error with an almost comical succession of military threats and last-minute climb-downs, each of them signaling indecision and weakness to Iranian adversaries practiced in the study of weakness.
Tehran took the measure of Trump’s courage. What it found was a bone spur.
All this may seem odd for a president who once loudly complained that the United States hadn’t “fought to win” a war since 1945, who demanded “unconditional surrender” from Tehran and who had repeatedly lambasted his predecessor for the humiliating exit from Afghanistan. Then again, it’s not odd for a president whose very essence is betrayal of everyone and everything, his own words not least.
Though the details of the deal remain murky — a telling indicator of its likely shoddiness, since the administration would surely trumpet the terms of a strong agreement — it’s already clear that Trump has betrayed his promise to the Iranian people, after they were massacred in January to quell antigovernment protests, that “help is on its way.” As in Venezuela, to say nothing of China and Russia, this administration’s message to oppressed people everywhere is that their rights come last.
Trump is also on his way to betraying Israel, our principal ally in this fight, by pushing Jerusalem to stand down in its effort to stop Hezbollah’s attacks on its north, in that way handing Tehran the victory of creating a diplomatic linkage between Lebanon and Hormuz. If Iran is now allowed to extract some kind of service fee for permitting ships to transit the Strait, Trump will have also betrayed our allies in the Persian Gulf by giving Iran financial and strategic leverage to which it has no right, and which it didn’t previously have.
The worst betrayal, however, is of Americans who supported the war — not only neocons like me but also most of Trump’s MAGA base — because we believed that Iran, which has waged a 47-year war against us, posed an increasingly intolerable threat to our security and vital interests.
This cease-fire neither ends nor eases that threat; it hardens and magnifies it. It removes the one point of U.S. leverage over Iran — the naval blockade of its ports — before there’s any negotiation over its nuclear program, which the Iranians will almost surely drag out until Trump is out of office. It reminds the world of the adage that while it can be dangerous to be America’s enemy, it is fatal to be its friend. And it gives Iran’s leaders something even more vital: The confidence that, whatever Trump may threaten, they can withstand the most any American president or Israeli prime minister can throw at them.
There’s a word for this: debacle. Not because the war, for all its costs or errors of execution, was a mistake. It’s because this pretense of a peace is an act of geopolitical self-harm that will haunt our standing in the world for years to come.
Bret Stephens is an Opinion columnist for The Times, writing about foreign policy, domestic politics and cultural issues.
Source photograph by Abedin Taherkenareh/EPA, via Shutterstock.
A version of this article appears in print on June 17, 2026, Section A, Page 18 of the New York edition with the headline: Trump Got Spooked and Iran Stood Firm.
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UPDATE: VIDEO OF ARREST OF VETERANS & THIS IS WHAT SUPPORTING THE TROOPS LOOKS LIKE FOR THE DRUMPF / TRUMP-VANCE ADMINISTRATION & SEC OF DEFENSE PETIE LOLA HEGSETH 21APR26
Disabled military veterans arrested for peacefully protesting the Iran War at Capitol Hill. A coalition of 200 veterans standing at attention, held red tulips honoring Iranians killed by US bombs, and conducted a flag-folding ceremony symbolizing the US troops killed.
The veterans demanded Speaker Mike Johnson come meet them to accept the folded flag and pledge to not continue funding of the war. At least 60 were arrested while waiting for Johnson to meet their demands.
Those arrested included Executive Director of Veterans For Peace Michael McPhearson and Executive Director of @centeronconscience Mike Prysner
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This is what “supporting the troops” looks like.
Veterans just got ZIP-TIED inside Congress.
More than 60 veterans and military family members gathered inside the Cannon House Office Building to demand an end to the war.
Some had canes. Some were in wheelchairs. Some had prosthetic legs.
They held banners that read “End the War on Iran” and “We Can’t Afford Another War.”
They performed a flag-folding ceremony. They held red tulips for the dead. And then police moved in and started zip-tying them.
The same MAGA movement that wraps itself in the American flag just had veterans dragged out of Congress for saying NO to Trump’s war.
These are not random protesters. These are people who SERVED. They saw it with their own eyes.
They know what war REALLY looks like.
Dead civilians.
Broken bodies.
Traumatized families.
Troops sent home changed forever.
Politicians lying until the last possible second.
That’s why this protest hit Trump SO HARD.
Because when veterans are willing to get arrested inside Congress to stop a war, you know the people pushing it are terrified of what comes next.
Trump wants obedience. That’s it.
He wants our flag. He wants photo ops. He wants WAR.
But the people who actually fought showed up to say NO. And for that, these heroes got zip tied…
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