We're in the third day of the American and Israeli war against Iran, and the U.S. State Department is now calling on Americans to evacuate more than a dozen countries in the Middle East. And that's extraordinary, because, on the one hand, you have relatively limited military goals for an operation, and on the other, you have this vision that would require some messy, likely long-term, very difficult insurgency, frankly, that the U.S. or Israel would have to keep going and fomenting. But Secretary of State Rubio today also argued essentially the opposite, that the U.S. didn't have a choice when to start the war because the military had to go when it did because of both Israeli and Iranian plans.
Author: Nick Schifrin, Zeba Warsi, Veronica Vela, Azhar Merchant
Published at: 2026-03-02 23:55:31
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