Imminent Threat? Iran Was Existential Threat
Posted By: Moritz55, 3/23/2026 8:13:07 AM
Politics, they say, makes strange bedfellows. War apparently makes even stranger enemies. Donald Trump’s decision to fulfill the promise of eight American presidents since 1979 to bring justice to the Iranian terror-sponsoring regime has not just elicited predictable outrage on the left, it has ripped apart the uneasy conservative alliance which brought Trump back to power last year. The resignation last week of Joe Kent as the director of the National Counterterrorism Center brought into sharp focus the deep divide between Trump and many of those who supported him on the false assumption that he opposed the use of force against foreign enemies, when in fact he has consistently treated it
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Trump to keep fighting Iran, put boots
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Trump to keep fighting Iran, put boots
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