Tell people there is a foreign evil that needs to be dealt with
Show force
Tell people the enemy has been defeated
Hope that distraction results in a wave of popularity and support
Nothing has changed domestically or internationally
The only thing I lament is people buying into the same old politics over and over. Right, left, doesn’t matter. For some it takes a few days to realize it. Others months and some never.
I know MAGA will sell this is as a new age of peace in the Middle East. Until it isn’t.
Right on cue people have fallen for the same old politics. Some people feel the world is magically a better place because a politician told them so. Good for them.
It’s not required under the War Powers Act. By law, he didn’t even have to notify Congress until 48 hours after the fact. And Trump is by no means the first President to do this sort of thing. Even Nobel Peace Prize recipient Obama used this power.
A perennial choice in foreign policy: carrots or sticks (Churchill). Clearly the carrots have done nothing to curtail Iran’s support of H and H and their other nefarious activities, which leaves what? What do you propose Israel and the US should do instead, in terms of Iran?
Hook, line and sinker. Terrorist animals have LIBs exactly where they want them. Israel is the bad guy and terrorists are nothing more than freedom fighters, not looking to hurt anyone.