Oversight
Iran Could Be Our Next Vietnam
The Trump administration is doing whatever it can to justify war with Iran
The Trump administration is marching toward war with Iran on the back of exaggerated or cooked intelligence — and we should all be terrified.
The latest escalations started a few weeks ago, when Trump’s national security advisor, and longtime Iran hawk, John Bolton issued an inflammatory statement saying that the U.S. would be sending a carrier strike group and bomber task force to the Middle East in response to an unnamed “number of troubling and escalatory indications and warnings” from Iran.
Almost immediately, there were reports that the claims were wildly exaggerated. The Daily Beast cited “multiple sources close to the situation” in reporting that “the administration blew it out of proportion, characterizing the threat as more significant than it actually was.”
“We’re sending a message with this reaction to the intelligence,” one official told the Daily Beast, “even though the threat might not be as imminent as portrayed.”
That was just the beginning. The Trump administration then claimed, last week, that Iran has been escalating confrontations with the United States through its proxy forces in Iraq; in response, the…
