Donald Trump gets mashed over 'small potatoes' Iran war

Trump invoked the Vietnam War to put the US-Iran conflict in perspective TOI correspondent from Washington: US President Donald Trump has put the Iran war on a diet. Six months, 18 dead American service members, hundreds wounded, global economic pain, and billions of dollars later, he has surpassed what he once termed as a "little excursion" -- it is now “small potatoes.”Asked in the Oval Office on Friday whether he agreed with Vice President JD Vance that the conflict should not be called a war, Trump said: “I call it a military conflict because it’s small potatoes for us. It’s not a big thing.” He characterized the fighting as “intermittent,” noting recent pauses in active combat and comparing the US death toll to far higher casualties in Vietnam and Afghanistan.“It certainly doesn't feel like small potatoes,” Rachel Scott of ABC News pushed back, pointing to the loss of American lives and troops serving record deployments.Trump did not retreat to the potato bowl; Instead, he reached for a familiar measuring stick: Vietnam.“How long were we in Vietnam?” he shot back, contrasting the Iran confrontation with the tens of thousands of Americans killed during that war and in conflicts...