I would be 100% on board with Oren's isolationism here, save one thing: Israel. I am unwilling to sit by and let the Jews be annihilated. And that is what will happen.
I would prefer we didn't need the Middle East. I'd prefer we treat it the way we treat Africa -- ignoring it -- and focus on our own hemisphere. But we can't do that because, as Oren says here, the enemy gets a vote. Mullahs with nukes are an existential threat to Israel and a serious one to the rest of the world. Were Iran to test detonate a nuclear weapon, Israel would have no choice but to nuke Tehran. Avoiding the actual use of nuclear weapons is critical. I don't think I've ever said John Bolton's right, but in this case, I think he is.
I very much wish the President had made that case to Congress, but I understand why he didn't. Congress is so partisan now it can't even pass a "don't slice the boobs of teenagers" bill or a "perhaps we ought to know who you are before you vote" bill -- both of which have 80%+ public approval. At a minimum though, Trump needs to make a national address (should have already done it) and make the case for why this war is the right thing to do.
As others here have said, it's too early and to foggy to know for sure, but right now, it looks like Trump's gamble was a decent one.
First of all, if anyone needs protection it’s the Middle East from Israel. Amazing that the country that actually has nuclear weapons, that recently attacked at least 4 other countries and is actively committing a genocide has somehow convinced a portion of Americans that they are the true victims and need protection. Luckily that portion of Americans is rightfully shrinking by the minute.
I honestly don't know what to say to something this divorced from reality.
Muslim mobs chant "death to the Jews" every single week throughout the Middle East. Can you please supply video showing the 10,000 person mob in Tel Aviv chanting "death to the Arabs"?
If Hamas and Hezbollah and Iran laid down their arms (or at least agreed to no longer try to kill Jews) tomorrow, there would be peace.
If Israel laid down their arms tomorrow, there would be a massacre.
Israel has killed over 70,000 people — most of them civilians — and yet the people we’re supposed to be concerned about are the ones raising their voices in protest.
When your apologetic argument hinges on "words don't mean what they say" you're grasping at straws.
And were you to chant "death to the King" in any European country for most of the last 1000 years, you would have been tried for treason.
But you're right, it is a cultural thing. The root of the word "culture" is "cult" as in religion. And Muslim "culture" clearly has a problem with wanting to kill anyone who disagrees with them.
Please go back to watching MSNBC. Genocide? That population has grown greatly and would be thriving if it would move on and stop embracing being a death cult. Run by a Hamas govt that says the UN is responsible for humanitarian needs of its people while it builds tunnels and a culture obsessed with war. Let’s remember this all started with a massacre of Israelis for no reason than hatred of Jews.
It's fascinating to watch Don's flock dutifully morph into neomagacons as they join him in flip flopping on another of their supposed core beliefs. Don's clever 4D strategery seems to be unspooling flawlessly so why not jump on board? I mean, just today we removed sanctions on Iranian oil, on the heels of doing so for Russia. Brilliant.
Then again, maga has never been about policy. It's always been about culture wars and grievance. Ya know, why get all hung up about a mere Middle East war when there are trans kids/families to denigrate just for sport. Gotta have priorities I guess.
Middle East war, global pedophile rings, balancing the budget, draining the swamp (crypto anyone?), support for workin stiffs, deporting only the worst of the worst, anti-vax conspiracies, stolen elections, Obamacare replacement...
I'm keeping the faith, eventually Don will tell the truth. Next time he says obliterated, I know I'm gonna believe him.
And I'm gonna believe the Secretary of WAR as he prosecutes maga's Middle East "excursion". That training he received as a Fox weekend talk show co-host is really comin in handy.
What impressive men leading us into battle. Good luck America.
I've never been MAGA, Karl, I'm a reluctant Trump supporter because the other options were so terrible. I wouldn't describe my position as "jumping on board" but rather "not trying to weigh the car down." I'm very much wish Trump hadn't done this, especially without Congressional consultation. But having begun it, I see little option but to finish it. That said, we can't displace the mullahs. (Well, we could, but no one is ready to sign onto a ground invasion.) The Iranian population has to do that.
After the experience of term one, which culminated with the worst acts ever committed by a US president, who woulda thunk that rehiring an aging, angry, slurring, narcissistic, incoherent imbecile surrounded by incompetent loyalists might present a danger to our precious republic? Let's all say a prayer for our service men and women who find themselves trapped under his command.
It might be fun to think that governing is merely about owning the libs, just unending, inane culture war battles against fellow Americans. Sadly, Don has again reminded us how deadly serious his job is.
Meanwhile, can we all at least agree how unseemly it is that as chaos reigns, Don continues pocketing billions as he gaslights his flock? Perhaps the "new" right might manage to utter a peep as he sells us out to foreign interests for corrupt crypto cash?
And to think, Republicans used to bellow that character counted. It seems so quaint now as my former party continues to put their revealed preferences on display. They don't just tolerate Don, they want what he's selling. Maybe it's incorrect to say that the "new" right has flip flopped on Middle East wars, since they've repeatedly shown us their allegiance isn't to a set of ideas or a coherent ideology, but to a singular, corrupt politician. Q, a proud member of the "new" right coalition, put it thusly: "Where we go one, we go all"...
Jews are endangered more than anything by Netanyahu and the other even more severe psycopaths running Israel today, twisting around the words of the bible to support their desire to take over land that isn't theirs, and committing every war crime in the book along the way. Iran repeatedly offered to de-nuclearize - something Israel pointedly refuses to do.
They can stick up for themselves. They’re a nuclear armed country with a powerful military and incredibly keen intelligence agency. We don’t need to be their patsy.
Israel can stick up for itself with nuclear weapons. But against a nuclear armed Islamic state? That scenario is so dangerous that it's worth spending some diplomatic and kinetic efforts to avoid.
If you think 3 weeks of Hormuz closure is bad, imagine the Middle East with mushroom clouds of Tehran and Tel Aviv and the entire petroleum infrastructure destroyed.
To accuse Oren Cass of having TDS is either ignorant or ludicrous. If there's an overarching focus of Commonplace it's the defense of Trumpian trade policy. I absolutely think there are people who determine their positions by going 180 degrees from whatever Trump supports--I don't dispute that something rightly called TDS exists--but that's not Cass.
It's so delicious to watch maga blindly, yet predictably, morph into neomagacons. Y'all are like Don's little wind up toys marchin around in formation:)
What i don't see is the acknowledgement that Iranian ballistic missile capabilities were approaching the point that the US and Israel couldn't fight them off. Which puts world oil shipping under Iranian control.
Depends on who you think your allies are. Europe is a authoritarian mess from the Urals to the Atlantic. Plus the NATO bunch doesn't have the capacity to do anything without the US so why bother.
Europe? Authoritarian mess? There’s a lot to improve in Europe (defense spending), but not sure it’s bc of authoritarianism. Hungary maybe?
But our Moron-n-Chief- Mr. Bonespur himself, has an inadequate understanding of history and war- never had a callous on his hands & never traveled the world except in luxury!!! He touts America Alone but once geographical complexities arise (ie- S of Hormuz) then he cries that NATO has never supported us. The dumbass doesn’t even know ghat article 5 has been invoked only once- on OUR behalf after 9/11! Denmark lost more soldiers than we did in Afghanistan on a per capita basis!!! Led by a fool. Sad.
This war may well may end up being a miscalculation by Trump - but only if he fails to neutralize the terrorist threat presented by Iran’s terrorist theocratic dictatorship. The argument presented here (that the U.S. can just sit on its ass as terrorists act elsewhere) is nonsensical. The U.S. isn’t Slovakia. Inaction is an action, and an unacceptable one.
First, he is universal global genius in everything: economics, global strategy, Japanese diplomacy, Israel vices, neocons, old liberals, and so on. Such people probably exist, and they may be sometimes brilliantly right, sometimes wrong, but their discoveries and errors are non-trivial. Mr. Cass pronounces banalities. Trump with his gang opened "America first" continent, not he. Cass is trying to invade a foreign land.
Second, he simply plays games with reality. Neither Clinton, nor Bush, even not Obama and Trump engaged in building American Empire. Empire means Empire. Cass does not provide a single supporting fact. His post is a rant, an obfuscation. A hooey.
The wheel is still in spin. If this devolves into another nation building debacle a la Bush you will be proven correct and the nation will be harmed. But if is just a punitive campaign to destroy the offensive capacity of what everyone agrees is a rogue state, it is another matter. There is a body of opinion that says at some point Trump will declare victory and withdraw. I am old enough to remember people giving LBJ exactly that advice. He didn't take it. Will Trump? Who knows, certainly not me nor I think you. Our existing alliances, save Israel, are pretty worthless. We do need to figure out a way to get energy to India, Japan, S. Korea and the smaller states ringing China. Steps seem to have been taken with India and discussion is underway with Japan. There is all that Russian gas, oil and fertilizer just sitting there waiting to be used. All we have to do is get out of the way. If Europe and the Anglosphere want to continue their insane war on Russia, let them freeze in the dark. If we do withdraw, Hormuz will reopen probably because Iranians need the revenue but perhaps because the Arabs force it with help from the Israelis or whatever country needs what is inside. Your concern about process is pure Bush and how did that work out. Surprise is much more effective as Trump noted. Britain in its prime didn't worry about process. Before Pearl Harbor became a verb, the term was "to Copenhagen ". So my advice is ignore Trump's bombast and wait. We knew he was bombastic when we elected him and deep down he makes deals.
Well I gotta agree with you on Don's surprise tactics. After preaching about past "stupid" Middle East wars for a decade, making it a centerpiece of his campaign, who woulda thunk he'd lie and launch one of his own:). Once he flip flopped, maga dutifully flipped as well, and now tout our need to be the world's policemen. I just love that. There is literally nothing the flock won't swallow, because maga isn't about issues, it's all culture war and grievance. A lifestyle brand.
But, perhaps you've jumped the shark with the belief of Don's claim that Ukraine started the war with Russia as his justification for switching sides to ally the US with Vlad. At least Witcoff has assured us Russia isn't providing intelligence to Iran to help target Americans...uh huh.
That was prewar assessment supposedly because Iranian negotiators told that to ours. True? Don't know nor its location. That's not weapons grade but I have read it takes only one more enrichment cycle to get there.
Lose this battle (back off out of political fear) and Iran will go nuclear. It will redouble its missile efforts, particularly at the strait. Then what sort of pain can they extract while they return to funding proxies across the region. You can pay now or pay much more later.
A naive isolationist rant. Thank heaven, FDR found ways to provide vital supplies to the Brits and Russia long before Pearl Harbor officially pulled us in. You, in contrast, would have seen the continent sink into permanent Hitlerian darkness......because.....well....it's all so far away........ and.....energy prices will go up.
And, No, I'm not part of the all-powerful Zionist lobby that you and Vance and Joe Kent obsess about.
2023 Iran claimed, with IAEA verification, about 80kg of 60% HEU. In the winter 2025/26 discussion they claimed 440kg of 60% HEU. There is ZERO civilian use for this level refinement. Midnight Hammer did not do the job well enough. They had EVRY chance to abide by UN and IAEA guidelines. Time's up.
When will you see the light? Trump, his administration, and what he stands for, do not support the America you want. Let’s make a stronger opposition than get behind this farce of a presidency.
Let's make this simple. He was elected to shut down the illegal immigration mess, to cut back on government regulations and the size and waste in government agencies. He was elected to strengthen our military and get men out of women's sports. He was elected because most of us thought the country was becoming a massive "welfare state." And he has accomplished those things and much more, is not frightened by the legacy socialist press, and believes in the American dream (as opposed to the bloated government, massive regulatory, wasteful and corrupt welfare state). Thanks, very much. I'll stick with what he has accomplished. And if you think he's mistaken about military action against Iran, you and I just have a wildly different view of its capacity to export terror and death. You don't have to like his personality; it's a loser. And if you want to rub our noses in every past statement he's made, let's try that with stumbling Biden or lying Obama. (JCPOA, anyone?)
I forgot that Trump was elected to protect people in the Middle East from their theocracies, monarchies, and autocracies. Thank goodness those scary Iranians are no longer able to export terror and death! Next up, the autocracy of Russia! Let's go MAGA on Russia!
Great, thoughtful article by Mr. Cass. I completely agree with his points. What is America’s interests with this war and why should Americans die? Regarding Israel, they have nuclear weapons and we pay them billions of dollars in aid every year; they should take care of themselves.
Iran claimed their IRBMs were limited to 2000km. They launched two at Diego Garcia, 4000km away. That's all I need to know to let slip the dogs of war.
I would be 100% on board with Oren's isolationism here, save one thing: Israel. I am unwilling to sit by and let the Jews be annihilated. And that is what will happen.
I would prefer we didn't need the Middle East. I'd prefer we treat it the way we treat Africa -- ignoring it -- and focus on our own hemisphere. But we can't do that because, as Oren says here, the enemy gets a vote. Mullahs with nukes are an existential threat to Israel and a serious one to the rest of the world. Were Iran to test detonate a nuclear weapon, Israel would have no choice but to nuke Tehran. Avoiding the actual use of nuclear weapons is critical. I don't think I've ever said John Bolton's right, but in this case, I think he is.
I very much wish the President had made that case to Congress, but I understand why he didn't. Congress is so partisan now it can't even pass a "don't slice the boobs of teenagers" bill or a "perhaps we ought to know who you are before you vote" bill -- both of which have 80%+ public approval. At a minimum though, Trump needs to make a national address (should have already done it) and make the case for why this war is the right thing to do.
As others here have said, it's too early and to foggy to know for sure, but right now, it looks like Trump's gamble was a decent one.
First of all, if anyone needs protection it’s the Middle East from Israel. Amazing that the country that actually has nuclear weapons, that recently attacked at least 4 other countries and is actively committing a genocide has somehow convinced a portion of Americans that they are the true victims and need protection. Luckily that portion of Americans is rightfully shrinking by the minute.
I honestly don't know what to say to something this divorced from reality.
Muslim mobs chant "death to the Jews" every single week throughout the Middle East. Can you please supply video showing the 10,000 person mob in Tel Aviv chanting "death to the Arabs"?
If Hamas and Hezbollah and Iran laid down their arms (or at least agreed to no longer try to kill Jews) tomorrow, there would be peace.
If Israel laid down their arms tomorrow, there would be a massacre.
Israel has killed over 70,000 people — most of them civilians — and yet the people we’re supposed to be concerned about are the ones raising their voices in protest.
When your apologetic argument hinges on "words don't mean what they say" you're grasping at straws.
And were you to chant "death to the King" in any European country for most of the last 1000 years, you would have been tried for treason.
But you're right, it is a cultural thing. The root of the word "culture" is "cult" as in religion. And Muslim "culture" clearly has a problem with wanting to kill anyone who disagrees with them.
Israel is the only reliable American ally in the middle east.
Israel has traded land for peace multiple times.
Please go back to watching MSNBC. Genocide? That population has grown greatly and would be thriving if it would move on and stop embracing being a death cult. Run by a Hamas govt that says the UN is responsible for humanitarian needs of its people while it builds tunnels and a culture obsessed with war. Let’s remember this all started with a massacre of Israelis for no reason than hatred of Jews.
It's fascinating to watch Don's flock dutifully morph into neomagacons as they join him in flip flopping on another of their supposed core beliefs. Don's clever 4D strategery seems to be unspooling flawlessly so why not jump on board? I mean, just today we removed sanctions on Iranian oil, on the heels of doing so for Russia. Brilliant.
Then again, maga has never been about policy. It's always been about culture wars and grievance. Ya know, why get all hung up about a mere Middle East war when there are trans kids/families to denigrate just for sport. Gotta have priorities I guess.
Middle East war, global pedophile rings, balancing the budget, draining the swamp (crypto anyone?), support for workin stiffs, deporting only the worst of the worst, anti-vax conspiracies, stolen elections, Obamacare replacement...
I'm keeping the faith, eventually Don will tell the truth. Next time he says obliterated, I know I'm gonna believe him.
And I'm gonna believe the Secretary of WAR as he prosecutes maga's Middle East "excursion". That training he received as a Fox weekend talk show co-host is really comin in handy.
What impressive men leading us into battle. Good luck America.
I've never been MAGA, Karl, I'm a reluctant Trump supporter because the other options were so terrible. I wouldn't describe my position as "jumping on board" but rather "not trying to weigh the car down." I'm very much wish Trump hadn't done this, especially without Congressional consultation. But having begun it, I see little option but to finish it. That said, we can't displace the mullahs. (Well, we could, but no one is ready to sign onto a ground invasion.) The Iranian population has to do that.
After the experience of term one, which culminated with the worst acts ever committed by a US president, who woulda thunk that rehiring an aging, angry, slurring, narcissistic, incoherent imbecile surrounded by incompetent loyalists might present a danger to our precious republic? Let's all say a prayer for our service men and women who find themselves trapped under his command.
It might be fun to think that governing is merely about owning the libs, just unending, inane culture war battles against fellow Americans. Sadly, Don has again reminded us how deadly serious his job is.
Meanwhile, can we all at least agree how unseemly it is that as chaos reigns, Don continues pocketing billions as he gaslights his flock? Perhaps the "new" right might manage to utter a peep as he sells us out to foreign interests for corrupt crypto cash?
And to think, Republicans used to bellow that character counted. It seems so quaint now as my former party continues to put their revealed preferences on display. They don't just tolerate Don, they want what he's selling. Maybe it's incorrect to say that the "new" right has flip flopped on Middle East wars, since they've repeatedly shown us their allegiance isn't to a set of ideas or a coherent ideology, but to a singular, corrupt politician. Q, a proud member of the "new" right coalition, put it thusly: "Where we go one, we go all"...
Good luck America.
You're a moron
Jews are endangered more than anything by Netanyahu and the other even more severe psycopaths running Israel today, twisting around the words of the bible to support their desire to take over land that isn't theirs, and committing every war crime in the book along the way. Iran repeatedly offered to de-nuclearize - something Israel pointedly refuses to do.
They can stick up for themselves. They’re a nuclear armed country with a powerful military and incredibly keen intelligence agency. We don’t need to be their patsy.
Israel can stick up for itself with nuclear weapons. But against a nuclear armed Islamic state? That scenario is so dangerous that it's worth spending some diplomatic and kinetic efforts to avoid.
If you think 3 weeks of Hormuz closure is bad, imagine the Middle East with mushroom clouds of Tehran and Tel Aviv and the entire petroleum infrastructure destroyed.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. The simplistic this = that line of thinking appeals to many.
Another pundit with TDS that does not see the bigger picture of a world without Iranian terrorists.
To accuse Oren Cass of having TDS is either ignorant or ludicrous. If there's an overarching focus of Commonplace it's the defense of Trumpian trade policy. I absolutely think there are people who determine their positions by going 180 degrees from whatever Trump supports--I don't dispute that something rightly called TDS exists--but that's not Cass.
I completely agree with you, Daniel. I had an onstage "debate" (discussion really) with Oren at Skidmore in 2019 on climate change and climate policy and have saw nothing in him that put ideology over data. https://skidmorenews.com/new-blog/2019/2/13/the-climate-crisis-two-perspectives-united-in-rationality
If anything, this is the first pig from Trump’s pen that Oren *hasn’t* tried to put lipstick on.
It's so delicious to watch maga blindly, yet predictably, morph into neomagacons. Y'all are like Don's little wind up toys marchin around in formation:)
As we say in the country: Hook. Line. Sinker...
Jesus Christ. I found the most insane set of comments to an otherwise thoughtful article I think I’ve ever stumbled across on Substack.
What i don't see is the acknowledgement that Iranian ballistic missile capabilities were approaching the point that the US and Israel couldn't fight them off. Which puts world oil shipping under Iranian control.
I'm extremely biased here, but still, with all due respect Oren, you've missed the bigger picture so badly it hurts... 🤦🏻♂️
“The only thing worse than fighting with your allies, is fighting without them”
- a guy named Churchill
Depends on who you think your allies are. Europe is a authoritarian mess from the Urals to the Atlantic. Plus the NATO bunch doesn't have the capacity to do anything without the US so why bother.
Europe? Authoritarian mess? There’s a lot to improve in Europe (defense spending), but not sure it’s bc of authoritarianism. Hungary maybe?
But our Moron-n-Chief- Mr. Bonespur himself, has an inadequate understanding of history and war- never had a callous on his hands & never traveled the world except in luxury!!! He touts America Alone but once geographical complexities arise (ie- S of Hormuz) then he cries that NATO has never supported us. The dumbass doesn’t even know ghat article 5 has been invoked only once- on OUR behalf after 9/11! Denmark lost more soldiers than we did in Afghanistan on a per capita basis!!! Led by a fool. Sad.
This war may well may end up being a miscalculation by Trump - but only if he fails to neutralize the terrorist threat presented by Iran’s terrorist theocratic dictatorship. The argument presented here (that the U.S. can just sit on its ass as terrorists act elsewhere) is nonsensical. The U.S. isn’t Slovakia. Inaction is an action, and an unacceptable one.
I see two big problems with Oren Cass .
First, he is universal global genius in everything: economics, global strategy, Japanese diplomacy, Israel vices, neocons, old liberals, and so on. Such people probably exist, and they may be sometimes brilliantly right, sometimes wrong, but their discoveries and errors are non-trivial. Mr. Cass pronounces banalities. Trump with his gang opened "America first" continent, not he. Cass is trying to invade a foreign land.
Second, he simply plays games with reality. Neither Clinton, nor Bush, even not Obama and Trump engaged in building American Empire. Empire means Empire. Cass does not provide a single supporting fact. His post is a rant, an obfuscation. A hooey.
The wheel is still in spin. If this devolves into another nation building debacle a la Bush you will be proven correct and the nation will be harmed. But if is just a punitive campaign to destroy the offensive capacity of what everyone agrees is a rogue state, it is another matter. There is a body of opinion that says at some point Trump will declare victory and withdraw. I am old enough to remember people giving LBJ exactly that advice. He didn't take it. Will Trump? Who knows, certainly not me nor I think you. Our existing alliances, save Israel, are pretty worthless. We do need to figure out a way to get energy to India, Japan, S. Korea and the smaller states ringing China. Steps seem to have been taken with India and discussion is underway with Japan. There is all that Russian gas, oil and fertilizer just sitting there waiting to be used. All we have to do is get out of the way. If Europe and the Anglosphere want to continue their insane war on Russia, let them freeze in the dark. If we do withdraw, Hormuz will reopen probably because Iranians need the revenue but perhaps because the Arabs force it with help from the Israelis or whatever country needs what is inside. Your concern about process is pure Bush and how did that work out. Surprise is much more effective as Trump noted. Britain in its prime didn't worry about process. Before Pearl Harbor became a verb, the term was "to Copenhagen ". So my advice is ignore Trump's bombast and wait. We knew he was bombastic when we elected him and deep down he makes deals.
Well I gotta agree with you on Don's surprise tactics. After preaching about past "stupid" Middle East wars for a decade, making it a centerpiece of his campaign, who woulda thunk he'd lie and launch one of his own:). Once he flip flopped, maga dutifully flipped as well, and now tout our need to be the world's policemen. I just love that. There is literally nothing the flock won't swallow, because maga isn't about issues, it's all culture war and grievance. A lifestyle brand.
But, perhaps you've jumped the shark with the belief of Don's claim that Ukraine started the war with Russia as his justification for switching sides to ally the US with Vlad. At least Witcoff has assured us Russia isn't providing intelligence to Iran to help target Americans...uh huh.
Good luck America.
Same question. How do you respond to the news that Iran now has 442 Kg of 60% pure U235?
That was prewar assessment supposedly because Iranian negotiators told that to ours. True? Don't know nor its location. That's not weapons grade but I have read it takes only one more enrichment cycle to get there.
Lose this battle (back off out of political fear) and Iran will go nuclear. It will redouble its missile efforts, particularly at the strait. Then what sort of pain can they extract while they return to funding proxies across the region. You can pay now or pay much more later.
A naive isolationist rant. Thank heaven, FDR found ways to provide vital supplies to the Brits and Russia long before Pearl Harbor officially pulled us in. You, in contrast, would have seen the continent sink into permanent Hitlerian darkness......because.....well....it's all so far away........ and.....energy prices will go up.
And, No, I'm not part of the all-powerful Zionist lobby that you and Vance and Joe Kent obsess about.
Could you explain what our response to learning they have refined 441 Kg of 60% pure U235?
We took care of that in June 2025 as the administration repeatedly told us. Don’t you remember?
2023 Iran claimed, with IAEA verification, about 80kg of 60% HEU. In the winter 2025/26 discussion they claimed 440kg of 60% HEU. There is ZERO civilian use for this level refinement. Midnight Hammer did not do the job well enough. They had EVRY chance to abide by UN and IAEA guidelines. Time's up.
When will you see the light? Trump, his administration, and what he stands for, do not support the America you want. Let’s make a stronger opposition than get behind this farce of a presidency.
Never, and you should have someone take a look at that TDS.
This whole ‘TDS’ thing is such a childish response. Just stop.
Let's make this simple. He was elected to shut down the illegal immigration mess, to cut back on government regulations and the size and waste in government agencies. He was elected to strengthen our military and get men out of women's sports. He was elected because most of us thought the country was becoming a massive "welfare state." And he has accomplished those things and much more, is not frightened by the legacy socialist press, and believes in the American dream (as opposed to the bloated government, massive regulatory, wasteful and corrupt welfare state). Thanks, very much. I'll stick with what he has accomplished. And if you think he's mistaken about military action against Iran, you and I just have a wildly different view of its capacity to export terror and death. You don't have to like his personality; it's a loser. And if you want to rub our noses in every past statement he's made, let's try that with stumbling Biden or lying Obama. (JCPOA, anyone?)
I forgot that Trump was elected to protect people in the Middle East from their theocracies, monarchies, and autocracies. Thank goodness those scary Iranians are no longer able to export terror and death! Next up, the autocracy of Russia! Let's go MAGA on Russia!
Sorry, I can't think clearly. I have TDS.
Great, thoughtful article by Mr. Cass. I completely agree with his points. What is America’s interests with this war and why should Americans die? Regarding Israel, they have nuclear weapons and we pay them billions of dollars in aid every year; they should take care of themselves.
Well written ,Brovo !
Iran claimed their IRBMs were limited to 2000km. They launched two at Diego Garcia, 4000km away. That's all I need to know to let slip the dogs of war.