Trump’s ‘Status Quo’ With Iran Is an Admission of Defeat

 https://www.newsweek.com/trump-iran-status-quo-admission-defeat-12694638

Donald Trump said America was "keeping it the status quo" with Iran and declared the war with Tehran was "militarily, effectively over" in comments to the press on Monday.

If, by status quo, the president means the circumstances of the past few months, then he’d be referring to a Strait of Hormuz that remains heavily restricted, intermittent attacks on oil tankers, the indefinite presence of American aircraft carriers and warships in the Middle East, and a naval

America’s war aims in Iran have never exactly been crystal clear, but, by almost any measure, the status quo looks suspiciously like failure. If you could go back to February and tell U.S. lawmakers—or indeed any American—that this is where we’d be after eight months, would anyone have considered it a price worth paying?