Source: The American Conservative
by Stephen Wertheim
“Today the United States government, under President Donald Trump, is again weighing whether to use military force against a Middle Eastern country that was not preparing to attack the United States. This time the decisive question is supposed to be whether Iran was building a nuclear weapon and reaching some ill-defined point of no return. If you answer yes, you therefore favor U.S. strikes on Iranian enrichment facilities and possibly much else. After all, the United States has long maintained that Iran cannot acquire a nuclear weapon, and if that goal cannot be achieved by diplomacy — even if America’s ally Israel may have spoiled that diplomacy — it must be attempted by force. The American public should resist such thinking, which does not make sense.” (06/20/25)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/diplomacy-not-force-is-still-trumps-best-iran-bet/