Let me begin by saying: God bless our troops. We support them and pray for their safety. They deserve leadership that is steady, transparent, and grounded in strategy — not politics.
That said, the overnight strikes in Iran are both concerning and confusing.
Last summer, Trump told the nation he had “obliterated” Iran’s nuclear program. If that were true, why are we launching new attacks now — actions that risk igniting a broader regional war in an already fragile region? If the threat was not eliminated, why were the American people told it was?
These questions become even more urgent in context. During his first term, Trump withdrew from a nuclear agreement that took years of multilateral diplomacy to negotiate. The deal wasn’t perfect…few international agreements are, but it imposed meaningful constraints, intrusive inspections, and enforceable accountability. Inspectors were on the ground verifying compliance.
He abandoned that framework without securing stronger terms or establishing a viable replacement.
Since then, efforts to negotiate a new agreement have, by many accounts, resembled the structure of the one that was dismantled. That invites a serious question: was the withdrawal driven by strategic necessity, or by a desire to erase a signature Obama-era achievement rather than improve upon it?
If the end goal is to return to similar guardrails, the American people deserve a clear explanation for the escalation and instability…for the second time in less than a year, when negotiations to secure a new deal were taking place?
These are not partisan questions, they are strategic ones.
When American lives are on the line and regional stability in an already fragile part of the world hangs in the balance, honesty from the President of the United States is not optional.
It matters.
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