This war is stupid.
We went to war with Iran under false pretenses. Last year the White House told us Iran had an active nuclear weapons program that we "completely obliterated." Then told us last week that Iran was "days away" from nuclear capabilities. They told us regime change was the goal. Now Trump admits the next government "could be worse." Which is it?
We're running out of precision weapons. The Strait of Hormuz is closed, oil is surging, and shipping lanes are paralyzed. There's no exit strategy, no endgame, and no plan for what comes next - just open-ended conflict in a region we spent 20 years trying to leave.
This was never our fight to start. Iran wasn't attacking the US mainland. There was no imminent threat to American citizens. Yet here we are, bogged down in another Middle East quagmire while the debt piles up and the military-industrial complex cashes checks.
They sold us nuclear weapons that didn't exist. They promised stability and delivered chaos. And now we're stuck holding the bag while gas prices spike and the world wonders if American foreign policy has any coherent strategy at all.
Regime change failed in Iraq. It failed in Afghanistan. And it's failing in Iran before it even starts. When do we learn?