The American military buildup around Iran is at levels unseen since either the 1991 or 2003 wars with Iraq, but at this writing, the war — if there is to be a war — is not begun. Whether it comes or not — or has already come, by the reading — we may already discern particular lessons from it. We must look at what is happening, and also what is not.
What is not happening, emphatically and notably, is meaningful expressions of discontent or opposition to a prospective war that bears all the hallmarks of the wars President Donald Trump was supposedly elected to stop: a war of choice, a war in the Middle East, and a war of (quite possibly) regime change. This sort of war was supposedly the province of vanquished factions of the conservative movement, signified by the names Bush, Cheney, and McCain. Yet the coalition and the base that rejected them express little opposition to this president now as he stands upon the precipice of an epochal gamble.
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