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“Striking Iran at this time and under these circumstances was the right decision by an administration and president that usually make the wrong one,” David Frum writes: https://t.co/e7RRvjUIfj “An American president who does not believe in democracy at home has delivered an overwhelming blow in defense of a threatened democracy overseas,” Frum continues. “If a single night’s action successfully terminates Trump’s Iran war, and permanently ends the Iran nuclear-bomb program, then Trump will have retroactively earned the birthday parade he gave himself on June 14. If not, this unilateral war under a president with dictatorial ambitions may lead the United States to some dark and repressive places.” “Presidents have some unilateral war-making power,” Frum continues. President Barack Obama “did not ask Congress to authorize his air campaign in Libya in 2011. The exact limits of that power are blurry, defined by politics, not law. But Trump’s strike on Iran has pushed that line further than it has been pushed since the end of the Vietnam War—and the pushing will become even more radical if Iranian retaliation provokes more U.S. strikes after the first wave … This is a president who wants and wields arbitrary power the way no U.S. president has ever done in peacetime. And now it’s wartime.” “Trump’s decision to brief Republican leaders of Congress before the Iran strike, but not their Democratic counterparts, was not merely a petty discourtesy—it confirmed his divisive and authoritarian methods of leadership and warned of worse to come,” Frum continues at the link in our bio. “Trump exercises national power, but he cannot and will not act as a national leader … Now this president of half of America has commanded all of America into a global military conflict. With luck, that conflict will be decisive and brief. Let’s hope so.” Read more: https://t.co/e7RRvjUIfj 📸 : Carlos Barria / Reuters / Bloomberg / Getty