Contrary to the Trump administration’s callous public relations campaign early in the onslaught against Iran, war is not a movie or a video game. Starting a war is a decision to kill real people, destroy property, and divert limited resources from other priorities. For such moral and material costs to be acceptable, they have to be for a good purpose. No purpose will be good enough, however, unles...
Steelman: The article presents a strong critique of the U.S.'s decision to launch a preventive war against Iran, arguing that it was a strategically flawed decision with significant human and economic costs. It criticizes Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth for his flippant comments about overthrowing the Iranian regime without considering a strategy for doing so, and suggests that this war has damaged American moral leadership, increased vulnerability of other countries relying on U.S. power, yok...