Source: Exiled Policy
by Jason Pye
“What makes this moment so dangerous is not simply the risk of escalation with Iran. It’s the continued erosion of the process that is supposed to restrain exactly this kind of decision-making. The administration has offered shifting justifications for the strikes — imminent threats that weren’t imminent, a nuclear program that was supposedly destroyed less than a year ago, deterrence rationales retrofitted after the fact — while bypassing Congress entirely. That is not how the Constitution envisions the country entering hostilities, nor is it how public consent for war is built or sustained. If this conflict widens, if American casualties mount, or if ground troops are ultimately deployed, the question won’t just be whether the strikes were strategically wise. It will be whether the United States drifted into war without ever deciding, collectively, that war was necessary.” (03/02/26)
https://exiledpolicy.substack.com/p/the-administration-needs-to-make