On Saturday, though, Trump cast the conflict in grander terms: “For 47 years, the Iranian regime has chanted death to America and waged an unending campaign of bloodshed and mass murder,” he said in a ...

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President Donald Trump announced early Saturday morning that the US and Israel had launched an attack on Iran, saying the goal was to eliminate an “imminent threat” from Iran, “raze their missile ...

All we know for sure is that Trump has announced what he described as a “massive” war for no clear reason — the result of a warmaking process that no longer follows constitutional procedure, and ...

Along the way, his “America First” supporters and the Republican Party eagerly sought to canonize him as the “peace” candidate leading a broader movement against reckless militarism. In endorsing ...

Israel, by contrast, was more like a Middle Eastern Pakistan. Believing that the Jews of Palestine could only be safe in an avowedly Jewish state, the Zionist movement pushed for post-colonial ...