“By attacking Iran, President Trump is risking the lives of U.S. servicemembers for an unnecessary war under the false notion that a country as weak and remote as Iran, which cannot strike the American homeland, posed an imminent threat to the United States,” Rosemary Kelanic, director of the Middle East program at the think tank Defense Priorities, posted on X after Saturday’s strike.
She continued: “No case has been made to the American people about what this war is about, let alone why it is vital for our security. There is no articulated or clear set of objectives for striking Iran, nor is there a feasible military plan for achieving U.S. aims, whatever those may be, at acceptable cost and risk. Wars launched without clearly defined goals can expand beyond strategic sense — and as 25 years of failed U.S. policies show, it is easier to start a war in the Middle East than to end one.”
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