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Gen.Colin Powell frequently advised his intelligence analysts, “Tell me what you know; tell me what you don’t know; and then, based on what you really know and what you really don’t know, tell me what you think is most likely to happen.”His sage guidance is equally valid today — especially when it comes to the media reporting on the war in Iran.Going by the headlines, you’d think the United States is losing.Iran, analyst Robert Kagan told us last week in The Atlantic, has effectively checkmated President Donald Trump.Really? After only 38 days of actual fighting?Let’s be clear, Kagan got it wrong.Yet he’s not alone: For over a month now, many in the media have been writing the epitaph of a war that isn’t over.“Doomsdaying” –– OK, not a word, but necessary here –– is rapidly becoming Washington’s favorite sport.And selling defeat, undoubtedly for partisan political purposes, is shamefully in vogue.No wonder Trump is frustrated.On Monday, he fumed on Truth Social that even if the regime surrenders, with its leaders physically waving white flags, headlines will scream of Iran’s “Masterful and Brilliant Victory over The United States of America.”During World War II, Winston Churchill warned that truth must be protected by a bodyguard of lies.Today, far too many actors across the entire media spectrum are, wittingly or not, becoming the new bodyguard of lies.And most of the distortions they’re spreading come courtesy of anonymous sources — such as the reports spread last week by major media outlets claiming Iran could still possess 75% of its missile and launcher capacity.Iran is the only beneficiary here.Historically, it’s the enemy that creates the fog of war on the battlefield — yet now, social media is driving us to create our own media fog that only serves to aid Tehran.So how do we see through the mist of misdirection?First, by heeding Gen.

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