Welcome to the Dispatch podcast. I'm Steve Hayes. On today's roundtable, we return to Iran.

Is Iran actually winning the war, as some observers claim? Are the United States and Israel on the

same page in their war goals? Does it matter if they are?

Also, is there a worse time for a fight over Homeland Security funding? And finally, not worth your time,

Donald Trump's latest award, the Golden America First Award. Congratulations, Mr. President.

I'm joined today by my dispatch colleagues,

Editor-in-Chief Jonah Goldberg,

senior editor Mike Warren,

and dispatch contributor Mike Nelson.

Let's dive right in.

Mike Nelson, I'm looking here at a tweet from the economist.

A month of bombing Iran has achieved nothing.

Will Donald Trump escalate or talk?

For now, at least, the advantage lies with the Islamic Republic,

and it's got a picture of the cover with someone holding up a map with a ring bearing the flag of the Islamic Republic and the cover line, Advantage, Iran. Now, I'm no military expert, but the United States and Israel has done

tremendous damage to the Iranian military, to its intelligence capabilities, to its leadership

structure. This seems to me way too clever by half. Who's right? I mean, the economist in their, you know,

snarky way of presenting it raised some important issues, but they are, like a lot of people are,

way too catastrophic about the way they're categorizing this. To say it's accomplished nothing

is, you know, patently false.

Particularly when we look at, again, the White House has kind of coalesced around these four

criteria that they're trying to bring about. Two of those are demonstrably, you know,

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