Election 2024
Matthew Petti | 10.1.2024 10:56 PM
The vice presidential debate on Tuesday night opened with a question that might as well have been a pitch for war with Iran. Both Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz nor Sen. J.D. Vance (R–Ohio) dodged it, attacking each other's foreign policy records as weak while refusing to commit to any concrete action on Iran.
"Earlier today, Iran launched its largest attack yet on Israel, but that attack failed, thanks to joint U.S. and Israeli defensive action…Iran is weakened, but the U.S. still considers it the largest state sponsor of terrorism in the world, and it has drastically reduced the time it would take to develop a nuclear weapon. It is down now to one or two weeks' time," CBS moderator Margaret Brennan said. "Governor Walz, if you were the final voice in the Situation Room, would you support or oppose a preemptive strike by Israel on Iran?"
Brennan was wrong on two counts. The Iranian missile attack, which Iran said was retaliation for Israeli assassinations over the past few months, hit some of the Israeli military bases that it targeted. And although Iran could accumulate enough enriched uranium for a bomb........