🚨 BREAKING: Trump warns 'whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again' if Iran doesn't agree to deal to end war pic.twitter.com/1PyIR5kM6J — Fox News (@FoxNews) April 7, 2026

🚨 BREAKING: Trump warns 'whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again' if Iran doesn't agree to deal to end war pic.twitter.com/1PyIR5kM6J

— Fox News (@FoxNews) April 7, 2026

I hate to be the voice of the big regulatory state and big government here. But I believe in truth in advertising. I don’t know about you, but I think that if one of our war aims is to literally erase a civilization from the face of planet Earth, it probably qualifies as a “war,” and that Congress, which has already signaled its willingness to spend lots of money on this, should have the decency to call it such, and give that dignity to our soldiers, sailors, and airmen. The people dying in this are dying in a war.

A “special operation” could be anything, like an embarrassing mission of conquest in Ukraine or a birthday trip to Chipotle. But destroying a civilization in one night, surely that’s war.

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