ON SUNDAY, President Trump issued a blunt warning to the theocratic tyrants in Tehran.

"If we are attacked in any way, shape, or form by Iran," he posted on social media, "the full strength and might of the United States Armed Forces will come down on you."

Just a few hours later, the US embassy branch in Tel Aviv was damaged during an Iranian missile barrage targeting Israeli population centers. Ayatollah Khamenei, it seemed, was daring the American president to make good on his threat.

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THERE ARE few things in contemporary geopolitics more heartening — or more humbling — than watching Ukraine fight for its life.

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NATIONAL PUBLIC Radio filed a lawsuit in federal court Tuesday, challenging President Trump's executive order directing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to stop funding NPR and PBS.

In its complaint, NPR argues that since the Corporation for Public Broadcasting is neither a federal agency nor part of the executive branch, Trump cannot tell it to freeze spending Congress has approved. "The president has no authority under the Constitution to take such actions," the lawsuit said. "On the contrary, the power of the purse is reserved to Congress."

NPR is absolutely right about that.

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IT IS among the most harrowing images of the Vietnam War.

On June 8, 1972, an Associated Press photographer took a picture of Vietnamese children running in terror from a napalm attack on the village of Trang Bàng. Formally titled "The Terror of War," the photograph is commonly known as "Napalm Girl" because of the arresting figure in the center: a naked 9-year-old girl named Kim Phuc Phan Thi, shrieking from the burns covering much of her body.

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IN A major address in Saudi Arabia this month, President Trump made it clear that he has no use for what is often called the "idealist" approach to US foreign policy. He began by heaping praise on the Saudi royal family and their economic growth, and then denounced — indirectly but scathingly — past American efforts to advance democracy and freedom in the region.

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