New Delhi, June 8 -- The most revealing thing Donald Trump said on the hundredth day of the Iran war was not the phrase the White House let run on every cable ticker. It was what came immediately before it.

and then, almost without pause, acknowledged the country still possessed roughly 21 to 22 percent of the missile stockpile it held when the fighting began in late February. Iran targeted a US airbase in Kuwait and the US Navy's 5th Fleet in Bahrain over the weekend. Six Iranian ballistic missiles were shot down by American forces on Saturday, a seventh failing to reach its target. Two more attack drones threatening the Strait of Hormuz were destroyed later that same day.

That arithmetic does not describe a decapitated military. It de...