J.D. Tuccille: Trump has a case for war. He should have made it to Congress

2026-03-03 - 11:13

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is now the former supreme leader of Iran and the world is a better place for his absence. Dozens of other figures in Iran’s murderous Islamist regime join him in improving the planetary climate by their removal as the result of a joint American-Israeli attack on Iran. But U.S. lawmakers and the public learned about the conflict after the decision to launch strikes had been made by the Trump administration. U.S. President Donald Trump has followed in the footsteps of too many of his predecessors in committing the country to a military conflict with all the risk that entails without first convincing people of the necessity of such a step or asking Congress for constitutionally required permission. Read More