{"id":317541,"date":"2026-03-02T07:51:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T07:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/317541\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T07:51:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T07:51:08","slug":"israeli-attacks-kill-at-least-31-in-lebanon-as-iranian-attacks-continue-around-middle-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/317541\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli attacks kill at least 31 in Lebanon as Iranian attacks continue around Middle East"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If American deaths grow, Trump&#8217;s comments could come back to haunt himpublished at 05:09 GMT<\/p>\n<p>05:09 GMT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-5adjh7-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/8025c513-814f-4824-a231-6907106001a4.jpg.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Anthony Zurcher<br \/>North America correspondent<\/p>\n<p>      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"US President Trump returns to the White House, Washington\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/4d2a4cdb-00e2-4840-9ad1-53fc9f89f689.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Reuters<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The joint US-Israeli bombing campaign against Iran now has an American casualty count, after the Pentagon confirmed that three US military service members had been killed in action.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Donald Trump has said that the nation grieves their deaths, but they may not be the last.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">\u201cThat\u2019s the way it is,\u201d he said in a video recorded from his Mar-a-Lago club and released by the White House while Air Force One was in flight, en route back to Washington DC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The line seemed unscripted. And it may turn out to be ill-advised.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">If the number of American deaths grows, Trump\u2019s remark, along with an earlier comment in an interview that \u201cwe expect casualties, but in the end it\u2019s going to be a great deal for the world\u201d, could come back to haunt him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">George W Bush\u2019s speech under a \u201cmission accomplished\u201d banner, delivered from the deck of an aircraft carrier returning from the early action during the Iraq War in 2003, is but one memorable example of how words \u2014 and images \u2014 can become significant political liabilities as circumstances change.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">For the moment, however, the bombing grinds on, while life in America continues almost as normal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If American deaths grow, Trump&#8217;s comments could come back to haunt himpublished at 05:09 GMT 05:09 GMT Anthony&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317542,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-317541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}