New Delhi, June 10 -- The night the bombs fell on Iranian radar stations near the Strait of Hormuz, the President of the United States turned to a television show for validation. Not a press conference. Not a nationally televised address. A clip from The West Wing, posted to Truth Social, in which a fictional commander-in-chief contemplates the virtue of hitting back.

and the fragment, stripped of its resolution, makes the opposite argument from the one Sorkin spent the episode building.

U.S. Central Command confirmed late Tuesday that American fighter jets had struck Iranian air defense installations, ground control stations, and surveillance radar sites near the Strait of Hormuz. The strikes, CENTCOM said in a statement posted to X, w...