The Republicans hoped that the American people would rally behind the flag and support Donald Trump and their party when he decided to bomb Iran.
Trump’s war is already more unpopular than Vietnam and now the administration wants tens of billions of dollars in additional funding to cover the costs of the war with Iran.
The White House is reportedly even considering sending ground troops to Iran, an idea that prompted a strong rebuke from Senator Chris Murphy on CNN’s State of the Union.
Senator Murphy said:
I mean, this is already a war that’s becoming an ongoing disaster. It gets even worse when the president talks about deploying ground troops and then talks about dozens, if not hundreds, of new American casualties. I think this government is simply failing to understand how to achieve their goals. Their objectives therefore shift by the minute. Sometimes we strive for regime change, sometimes we don’t. They have been consistent in their efforts to eliminate Iran’s nuclear program. But what they don’t understand is that you can’t destroy knowledge. Even if you did something really dangerous, like deploying American ground forces to try to extract some of their enriched uranium, there will still be the knowledge in Iran so that if you don’t actually manage to put a new leader in that country, they can just build that capacity back up once the American troops are gone.
So this is a billion dollar waste of money. Every day we pursue objectives that the government cannot actually achieve, including using military force to try to destroy the knowledge that already exists in Iran to build a nuclear weapon, right?
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