President Donald Trump suggested he would be willing to deploy US ground forces to Iran.
“I don’t have the yips with respect to boots on the ground — like every president says, ‘There will be no boots on the ground.’ I don’t say it,” President Donald Trump told The New York Post on Monday. “I say ‘probably don’t need them,’ [or] ‘if they were necessary.’”
On Sunday, President Donald Trump said the war against Iran would continue until all of his military objectives are achieved. He has pledged to destroy Iran’s navy, missiles, and nuclear program. Additionally, Trump has said he wants to see a new government in Tehran and prevent Iran from having ties with groups outside its borders.
On Sunday, the President told multiple media outlets that he expects the war to last about a month. During an event at the White House on Monday, Trump said the operations could last four to five weeks or even longer. In his interview with the New York Post, he claimed that operations were ahead of schedule.
So far, four American soldiers have been killed in the war. In an address to the American people on Sunday, Trump stated he expects more soldiers to die in the conflict.
Iran is rejecting American offers to talk and striking US bases across the Middle East and Israel.
Polling shows that the war is widely unpopular with Americans. A poll conducted shortly after the outbreak of the conflict by Reuters showed that only one in four Americans supported the President.
Trump told The New York Post that he did not care about how Americans felt about entering into another regime change war in the Middle East. “I think that the polling is very good, but I don’t care about polling. I have to do the right thing. I have to do the right thing. This should have been done a long time ago,” he stated.
