If the war was a tactical triumph, the cease-fire has been a disappointment.

President Trump seems to think that his diplomatic efforts to resolve his war against the Islamic Republic of Iran are going swimmingly.

“Yeah, I’d like to meet him,” the president said of his Iranian counterpart, Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, in an interview with the New York Post’s Miranda Devine. Trump gushed over the “respect” Iran’s new ayatollah enjoys, even if he is “missing a lot of different parts,” and Trump forecast a face-to-face with Khamenei “at some point, depending on how it all works out.” After all, he added, “we seem to be getting along quite well.”

Maybe the president is ...

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