Michael T. Klare, The Nation’s defense correspondent, is professor emeritus of peace and world-security studies at Hampshire College and senior visiting fellow at the Arms Control Association in Washington, DC. Most recently, he is the author of All Hell Breaking Loose: The Pentagon’s Perspective on Climate Change, and his latest article for The Nation is “A Very Trumpian Christmas Surprise? Signs Point to a Possible US Attack on Iran.”
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President Trump addresses the nation from the White House on Wednesday on the ballistic missile strike that Iran launched against Iraqi air bases housing U.S. troops. President Trump said that Iran appears “to be standing down” after Tuesday night’s missile attack in Iraq and that “the American people should be extremely grateful and happy no Americans were harmed.”