Fifty days ago I was writing about a procurement dispute.
Since then I have watched an alliance walk out of its own chamber, stood on a ramp where nobody could buy fuel, and reported from an airfield where nine people were killed by an ally.
And the strange part is that we have been told why, constantly, at length, from the Oval Office, four times. I have the transcripts. I have read them until the words came apart.
On 9 February he told the country the line stopped at Iceland. Seven days later he was addressing us again with a different reason. Both times he sounded completely certain. That is not a man hiding his aims. I no longer think there is a hidden one.