War Against Iran

The United States is at war with Iran, as Judd reports. President Trump ordered the invasion overnight, with no attempt to seek congressional authorization (nor any effort by the supine, Republican-controlled Congress to vindicate its war powers). As it goes with this administration, there was no Oval Office address or communication with the American people through government channels; rather, the president put out a video statement on social media in the wee hours of the morning.

While it is perilous for our governing framework and politically rash for the president to proceed this way, the blunt fact is that Iran has been at war with the United States throughout the near-half-century existence of the Shiite jihadist regime. As I’ve conceded, the president had adequate constitutional and statutory authority to order the ongoing attacks.