Has Trump Corrupted the Military?

David argues that these reported talks indicate the United States is losing the war in Iran, and that the loss highlights what has always been true: The presidency is too big a job for Donald Trump.Then David is joined by Representative Jason Crow of Colorado to discuss Trump’s politicization of the American military, lessons from the war in Iran, and the chaos at Pete Hegseth’s so-called Department of War.David ends with a discussion of James Boswell’s classic biography, The Life of Samuel Johnson.The following is a transcript of the episode:David Frum: Hello, and welcome to The David Frum Show. I’m David Frum, a staff writer at The Atlantic. My guest this week will be Jason Crow, who represents the Sixth District of Colorado in the United States House of Representatives. The book for discussion this week will be James Boswell’s [The] Life of Samuel Johnson, a classic of English biography and English literature.But before either the dialogue with Congressman Crow or the book discussion, some opening thoughts on news that is arriving this weekend that the United States and the Trump administration may have reached some kind of resolution in the war with Iran that began on February 28 of this year.Now, this news is very much in flux. That accounts for the unfamiliar look of this podcast, if you are watching. I am not recording from my usual recording place in Washington, D.C. I’m in Ontario for the Memorial Day weekend and am improvising a recording studio here. If the news is accurate, what we hear, what has been reported so far, is the United States is reaching a settlement based on the idea that the Strait of Hormuz will be reopened, that oil will resume flowing out of the Persian Gulf, in return for which the United States will offer some kind