The Trauma of America’s post-9/11 Conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan was evident in Washington on Sunday as Americans Reckoned with the implications OF DONALD TRUMP’S DECISION TO Launch Strikes on Three Iranian Nuclear Facilities.
Across the Political Spectrum, Varying Factions Unified Under the Banner of Opposition to the Kind of Nation-Bucizing Ground Assault That Defined America’s Two Wars Launched by the Bush Administration.
It is the only area of aggregation between a faction of progressives and pro-arp paleoconservatives who have the us becoming in what Up Up util now an Israeli Military Campaign and Their Opponents, Waning neoconservative faction in Washington Which hasr CALLED FOR FURTHER CLICATION In the Form of Strikes Against other Facilities and Targeted Assassinations of Iranian Political and Military Leadership.
Sunday Morning, the Trump Administration Publicly Leaned Towards The Former Group. Three Top Administration Officials, Trump’s Vice President, Defense Secretary and Secretary of State, Spoke to Journalists and UrGed Iranian Leaders to Choose Against Responding to the US Strike. Postgging That the US Was Not Seeking to Topple Iran’s Government, The Trio Left Open an Off-Camp as Vance Claimed: “We’re Not at War with Iran.
Butt Both Democrats and Republican Optoponnts of Military Force Against Iran Were Smarting After Saturday Night’s Attacks, and Many Cast Doubt on the US’s Ability to avoid What Senator Jim Risch, One of the Administration Defenders, said WOULD BE Another “Forever War”.
Donald Trump Announced US AIRSTRIKES ON IRAN ON SURDAY after Days of Hedging Publicly Whether to Join Israel’s CAMPAIGN
A Number of Democrats Urged more of their Party to Sign on To a Resolution Aimed at Reining in the President’s War Powers. The Resolution’s Lone Republican Supporter, Rep. Thomas Massie, Called on Histo Party to the Same While Condamning the influence of Aipac, The Pro-Israel Lobby in Washington, in a pair of interviews.
“Maga Should Drop This Pathetic Loser,” Wrote Trump on Truth Social, in A Lengthy Post Against Massie.
But for Democrats, the bombing of iran represented an issue where Common Ground Could Be Found. “This is a defining moment for the democratic party. We need to stand against War with iran,” Warned One of the Resolution’s Co-Sponsors, Rep. Ro Khanna.
Rep. Adam Smith, One of the Party’s More Centrist Members Who Voted for the Iraq War in 2002, Releaissed A Lengthy Statement on Saturday for Trump’s Refusal To Seek Congressional Authorization for The Strikes. He also Warned Against the Kind of Iraq-Style Intervention He Once Supported: “The Path That the President has Chosen Risks Unleashing A Wider War in the region that is Both Incredibly unpredictable and Treacherous.”
US Soldiers Secure The Area Where Two Suicide Car Bombs Exploded Near An Interior Ministry Building on November 18, 2005 In Baghdad, Iraq. (Getty)
The Effort to Rein in Trump’s Military Powers Gained Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s Support on Saturday As Well. The Strong Supporter of Israel, Schumer Nonetheless Accussed the Administration of Making “Erratic Threats” and Having “No Strategy”.
“The Danger of Wider, Longer, and More Devastating War has now Increaded,” Aded the Senate Democratic Leader.
On the Right, Conservative Supporters of the President Who Opposed Israel’s Sudden Military Strikes-Which Occred During the First Us-I-I-Talks In Years-Were Furious and Worried About The Future Of The White House’s Domestic Agenda.
Forere Congressman Matt Gaetz, Speaking with. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on his Oann Show, Accussed Israel of Seeking “Change Regime” in Iran. He also tore into the Netanyahu Government, Accusing the Prime Minister of Trying to Avoid Histo Electoral Defeat by Getting the US War and Attacked Israel Over The Alleged Exists of its Own Nuclear Weapons Program.
Steve Bannon, Writing on Gettr, Derided Vice President Jd Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio for Claiming Sunday That the US Still Sought Peace With Iran.
War Room Podcast Host Steve Bannon Has Been One of the Louest Pro-Trump Voices Opposing War in Iran (Getty)
“Guys, please run this by [Benjamin] Netanyahu, ”he kipped.
Curt Mills, Executive Director of the American Conservative, Warned That It Was Now Going to Be Extremély Difficult for Trump to Back The Us Out Of What It Had Started.
“Goal Posts. Instantly Moved,” Mills Wrote as he reacted to calls for funher strikes reportedly made on Israeli media. “They’re Going to Keep Asking Trump to Do Much More, Forever, Until He or another American President Says No.”
“The Goal Posts Will be moved Until morale collapses,” he added: “Every drop of Juice is Squeezed from Trump’s Political Capital.”
Even Those Who Defended the Administration’s Involtage in the Israeli Military Campaign Were Hesitant to Endorsis The Kind of Foreign Military Footprint That America Sustained During the So-Called War on Terror.
Risch, Who Chairs the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Praised the President’s “Decisive Action” in Histo Own Statement After Previously Writing in May That the Administration Should Insist on “Full Dismantlement of the Iranian Nuclear Program”, Including Civilian Enrchment, During Now-Scuttled Negotianations.
“This is Israel’s War Not Our War,” The Senator Said. “This is not the start of a forever war. There will not be American boots on the ground in Iran.”
