“Message discipline” is an art. It takes simplicity on the key point or points, plus repetition, to drive the central argument in any political debate home across a broad range of audiences.
About the battle with Iran, President Donald Trump has achieved and maintained superb message discipline on his most important message: Iran will never have a nuclear weapon.
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That’s the “message” of the conflict’s strategic objective.
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The second crucial message is the argument about “Why?” and on the question of why Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon, Trump has not yet achieved the necessary level of “message discipline.”
Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio have both been blunt: The rulers of Iran, both those who have been killed and those still alive, are “lunatics.” (“Insane in the head” was another memorable construction from Rubio about the rump regime still alive in
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