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News Analysis The war in Iran is exactly the kind of Middle East entanglement that President Trump's anti-interventionist base believed he was bitterly opposed to, because he said he was. When President Trump was pressed this week about his administration's conflicting messages on mass deportations, he did not offer much clarity. 'Everybody's right,' he said. Since his first campaign for president 10 years ago, Mr. Trump has excelled at appearing to favor both sides of the same issue, allowing supporters to hear what they want to hear, whether he's talking about tariffs, TikTok, abortion, tax cuts or more. But the prospect that the United States might join Israel in bombing Iran is testing his ability to embrace dueling positions with little to no political cost. 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