Stealth bombers carried bunker buster bombs (six 30,000 bunker busters) and dropped then on Iran when President Trump authorized this military strike without consulting Congress.
Senator Chris Van Hollen, Democrat of Maryland, framed the risks this way: “While we all agree that Iran must not have a nuclear weapon, Trump abandoned diplomatic efforts to achieve that goal and instead chose to unnecessarily endanger American lives, further threaten our armed forces in the region and risk pulling America into another long conflict in the Middle East. The U.S. intelligence community has repeatedly assessed that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon. There was more time for diplomacy to work.”
There are 40,000 U.S. troops in or near Iran. Has Trump thought about what happens to them now, or is this another ham-handed poorly-thought-out DOGE-style move?
It’s too soon to know the answer to that question, but we must hope and pray that the scientists and military minds left in Iran are not (still) capable of taking enriched uranium and building a bomb. At 9:25 a.m., from Tehran on CNN, an Iranian official described a populace that was previously quite fed up with its reigning administration, but, like all countries under attack, this action may change the Iranian public’s mind.
The quote from Senator Chris Van Hollen and the illustration are courtesy of the New York Times.
