Michael Goodwin: The war on Iran was never a choice — Trump was left with no option but to defend America and all Western civilization
NY Post
A major talking point among Democrats and their media handmaidens is that President Trump launched a “war of choice” against Iran.
Given American casualties and the earth-rattling impact, the criticism could be a powerful political argument in the midterm elections — if it’s true.
But it’s not true.
In fact, we now can be certain that the war on Iran is not a war of choice.
It is instead a war of American self-defense and maybe even a war of survival for Western civilization and Israel.
We know this because the curtain has been lifted on what happened inside the room during the last-ditch negotiations to head off the war.
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