COPACETIC OR APATHETIC?: The latest narrative from the White House is that everything is going to plan with the Iran war, and that, in the words of press secretary Karoline Leavitt, “The American media is sort of blowing this out of proportion to discredit the president.”

At the outset, President Donald Trump predicted the war would last four to six weeks, but it’s now in its eighth week and seems to have entered a phase in which neither side is in a hurry to give up.