If someone wants to be outraged by something I say here, I would urge him to read everything I say below, because there is something in here to upset everybody. 2/15

Such a decision should not be a surprise to anybody. Trump has been consistently saying, over the course of decades, that Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. 3/15

Someone who voted for Trump cannot say that they “didn’t vote for this” because actually they did too vote for it. 4/15

Trump is therefore unlikely to pay a political price for the action he is considering. Americans are weary of endless ground wars, but they like demonstrations of military superiority that cost hardly anything. 5/15

Nevertheless, I believe that Trump does not have the authority to take an action of this nature and magnitude—against a sovereign nation—without asking for a declaration of war from Congress. 6/15

That would throw everybody for a loop. A lawless king restoring constitutional norms! 7/15

Military strikes against pirates, or Houthi terrorists, do not fall in the same category. That’s one thing. A military attack on a sovereign nation, one likely to result in regime change, requires a declaration of war. 8/15

Simply on the basis of the numerous Iranian rockets and proxy rockets fired into Israel, Israel has the right and the responsibility to do what they are doing. 9/15

But we are not Israel. The president should not be saying things like “we” have control of Iranian air space. Proxy wars should be fought by the proxies. 10/15

And forgive me for thinking that the fact that Iran is weeks away from a nuclear bomb is not a legitimate casus belli. They have been weeks away from a nuke for many years now—the same as the enviros saying we have five years to save the planet. I don’t dispute the bomb part

On the basis of craft competence considerations alone, Israel’s attacks have been amazingly elegant and effective. 12/15

You say that Israel doesn’t have the bombers capable of delivering the bunker busters capable of taking out the one remaining Iranian enrichment facility? Then sell them one. One bomber and two bombs. Proxy wars should be fought by proxies. 13/15

These thoughts are not driven by any sort of religious allegiance. America and Israel both serve the same secularist idol, and Iran serves their own theocratic idol. As far as that goes, they and we are all under judgment. 14/15

What are these thoughts driven by then? Pragmatic considerations, conducted under the boundaries set by Scripture. 15/15