Source: Independent Institute
by Ivan Eland
“Trump not only needs to inform the American people about why he is taking the nation into a potentially escalatory war in their name but also to get their representatives in Congress to approve it, even now that it has illegally commenced. (Before the war started, American public support for an attack on Iran was only about 20 percent.) Trump will point to past bad presidential precedents to claim that he doesn’t need to do this — a ready opening for an authoritarian-leaning president that has been widening for some time. Congress needs to protest loudly and, finally, at long last, begin to rein in a rogue executive, but it probably won’t.” (03/02/26)
https://www.independent.org/article/2026/03/02/iran-military-action-urgency-legitimate-purpose/