Parts of Trump’s Maga base have balked at his military adventurism on the grounds that it betrays his vow to avoid new conflicts and distracts the White House from tackling domestic concerns such as the high cost of living. The trauma of the ill-fated, costly, and prolonged US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan is still felt across the political spectrum.
“By attacking Iran, President Trump is risking the lives of US service members 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,” said Rosemary Kelanic, director of the Middle East Program at Defense Priorities, a Washington think-tank, early on Saturday.
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