Both/and

Iran’s nuclear capability has been “totally obliterated.” But Iran is “probably a week away from having industrial-grade bomb-making material.”

In reading and watching the news, I haven’t seen anyone make a necessary (painfully obvious) point: the coexistence of these contradictory claims ought to put us in mind of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four.

“How can I help seeing what is in front of my eyes? Two and two are four.”

“Sometimes, Winston. Sometimes they are five. Sometimes they are three. Sometimes they are all of them at once. You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane.”

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[Sources for the statements in the first paragraph: the current occupant and Steve Witkoff.]