Today Marco Rubio walked up to the microphones and delivered what might be the cleanest example of Orwellian doublethink you can fit into a single sentence: the United States struck Iran “pre-emptively” because we believed Israel was going to strike first, and Iran would retaliate against U.S. forces—so we hit them before they hit us. In other words, the “imminent threat” was the retaliation expected after the attack we expected.
Read that again slowly.
