Prime Minister Mark Carney argues the war against Iran was justified because it halted Tehran’s pursuit of nuclear weapons. The evidence, Ted Snider writes, suggests otherwise. Iran was not building a bomb, diplomacy had already achieved major concessions, and the war inflicted immense human, economic, and environmental costs.
From the perspective of someone who’s leading a country that’s around number 3 or so on Trump’s “invade and annex” list, having America lose a war against Iran in an expensive and humiliating manner is very much worth it.