“Most Americans are not affected by this war, except for increases to oil prices at the pump. And so the United States does not necessarily have the same incentive to fight for long periods of time at high cost that Iran does,” Rosemary Kelanic, the director of the Middle East Program at Defense Priorities, said in an interview with The Hill on Wednesday.
Kelanic, of Defense Priorities, said as the war drags on and potentially more U.S. service members are killed, support for the “optional war” could go down.
“We could stop fighting assuming Iran lets us, it’s not clear that they’ll let us, right, but if Trump wanted to end the war, he could do that, and would not make the United States significantly less secure than we are now fighting the war,” she said.
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