New Delhi, Aug. 1 -- WASHINGTON - Five months into a military campaign with no publicly stated exit, Donald Trump on Friday rebuffed calls to set a deadline for ending the US-Iran war, dismissing critics of the conflict's pace as the same political voices that kept American forces bogged down in Vietnam for more than two decades.

Trump made the remarks in an interview with American journalist Steve Gruber, his most direct public defense yet of the administration's refusal to set any timetable for the campaign that opened February 28. TASS reported the exchange. "We're in our fifth month," Trump said, "and they're saying it's taking too long. The same people that kept us in Vietnam for 21 years are complaining. It's politics. It's terribl...