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Here are three things that have changed in the last day about the war with Iran.

The Trump administration isn't promising regime change, isn't,

for the Iranian people anymore. The State Department is urging Americans to immediately leave

14 different countries where they could be attacked by Iran because the war seems to be

widening faster than they anticipated. And President Trump is signaling the war might go on longer

than he first thought. You were just hearing about that on the BBC. He spins it here, though,

as a point of pride. Right from the beginning, we projected four to five weeks, but we have capability to go far longer than that.

We'll do it. Whatever somebody said today, they said, oh, well, the president wants to do it really quickly.

After that, he'll get bored. I don't get bored.

Trump at a Medal of Honor ceremony for past war heroes yesterday.

Fred Kaplan writes the war stories column for Slate about U.S. military and foreign policy. He's the

author of many books, including The Bomb, President's Generals and the Secret History of Nuclear

War, and his latest novel called A Capital Calamity.

His latest article on Slate is called Trump is about to send more forces to Iran, and there is still

no strategy. Thanks for coming on, Fred. Welcome back to WNYC.

Sure. Always good to be here.

What do you mean there's still no strategy?

Well, you know, you just played a clip which sort of illustrates this.

I mean, now we're not into regime change.

So, and we might be there longer than four or five weeks and might even send ground troops?

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