Source: Glenn Greenwald
by Glenn Greenwald

“Every new war that the U.S. wages — at least over the past six decades — is accompanied by a series of official lies, shifting and inconsistent claims about the war’s goals, and constant exaggerations about the grand progress toward glorious victory. Now, a full week into the Iran War started by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his partner, the American President Donald Trump, this war already equals, if not surpasses, the brazen war propaganda that instigated and fueled those prior ones.” (03/06/26)

https://greenwald.substack.com/p/trump-iran-war-is-an-open-ended-regime

Source: Cato Institute
by Jon Hoffman

“President Donald Trump has plunged the United States into an open-ended war with Iran, lacking clearly defined and achievable objectives, a discernible endgame, or a viable exit plan. This is a war of choice — Iran posed no imminent threat to the United States, and the White House is now scrambling to devise a strategy for a war already underway and proving more difficult than anticipated. The war will likely escalate as Iran digs in and hawkish voices push Trump toward maximalist — and largely unachievable — aims. By setting this crisis in motion, the Trump administration is repeating the same failures that have long defined US Middle East policy. Absent a course correction, the United States is on the path to another forever war.” (03/06/26)

https://www.cato.org/commentary/making-forever-war-iran

Source: The Atlantic
by Matteo Wong

“Whether it means to or not.” (03/06/26)

https://archive.is/nxWLW

Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Katherine Thompson

“This week efforts under the War Powers Act to check President Trump’s unconstitutional and unauthorized war in Iran failed on a mostly party line split in both the House and the Senate. The result isn’t all that surprising. The naivety, however, on the role of Congress in matters of war is staggering. Congress is in desperate need of a civics refresher.” (03/06/26)

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/trump-war-powers/

Source: Washington Post
by George F Will

“Other than among his devotees, Donald Trump has only the trust and empathy he has earned: none. It is too late for him to prudently increase Congress’s buy-in with his Iran policy by consulting it. So, the language and processes of law are the only arrows in his critics’ quivers. Those are, however, unavailing. Courts will not intervene where Congress is, as a practical matter, precluded by presidential nimbleness. There are many kinds of wars, and as many ways for presidents to evade Congress.” (03/06/26)

https://archive.is/cDQk8