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Trump’s Iran Strike Is Unconstitutional
Peace must prevail
The news that Trump bombed Iran last night was shocking and beyond upsetting. I know you have been reading a lot from different sources on what happened, and what it can mean. I am still gathering information, too.
This New Yorker piece, which David Remnick wrote immediately, ( he rarely does unless the news is alarming) is helpful. David gives over his podium to an expert of the region, Karim Sadjadpour, a scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and worked as an analyst with the International Crisis Group in Tehran. It’s a short piece, I recommend it.
Secondly, Nicholas Kristoff of the NY Times really speaks my mind in this video essay. We just don’t know enough yet.
Does/did Iran have nuclear capabilities that they were planning to use soon? We can’t trust any of the three men at the heart of this war: Netanyahu, Trump or the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
In terms of regime change, or the idea of eliminating nuclear capabilities, whether you consider it good or bad, do consider this: Trump’s military order was illegal, a clear violation of the Constitution. There…
