Enough talk: Trump is right to take action in Iran |
Enough talk: Trump is right to take action in Iran
In his almost two-hour-long State of the Union address, President Trump devoted a relatively short portion to the prospect of imminent war with Iran.
He did not repeat the specific threats he has made, nor did he mention the massive armada of warships he ordered to the region to enforce his threats. But he did briefly describe Iran’s many depredations — its violations of international law on nuclear weapons development, sponsorship of terrorism, and the “millions” of people killed by the regime over the years, including its recent slaughter of “32,000 protesters” after he vigorously warned Teheran not to do it.
The joint attack on Iran by the United States and Israel that followed just days later has stirred a range of reactions within the U.S. Critics of the Iran operation have tended to conflate the strategic rationale for the military campaign with the legal process by which the U.S. carried it out. Many who deplore the Iranian regime as the pariah of the Mideast and a threat to international peace and stability nevertheless condemned the operation because Trump failed to obtain prior congressional approval.
Members of Congress, including some Republicans, urged........