It’s not just that Donald Trump cannot explain why he has started a war with Iran
-- the worst part is that he is not even trying.

Trump has hardly said a word about Iran over the past week, even in his State of the Union address.

Congress is a bystander.
There are no hearings, no debate, no public support.
Yet, whether America plunges into a dangerous, unpredictable major war appears to rest on the whims of one man.

Even King George needed the approval of the British Parliament before he could wage war against the rebellious American colonies.
Trump has remained mum as he orders the largest military buildup in the Middle East since the invasion of Iraq in 2003.

The 2003 buildup was accompanied by months of public campaigning by President George W. Bush, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, and, famously, Secretary of State Colin Powell,
who tried to convince the American public and the United Nations that Saddam Hussein was behind the September 11 attacks and possessed massive stockpiles of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons that posed an imminent threat to the United States and the region.
Not a word of it was true, but the lies cowed Congress and convinced the majority of Americans that we had to invade.

There is none of that now.
Neither the U.N. Security Council nor our global or regional allies support this war.
European and Arab nations have refused to allow Trump to use their bases for his war.

There is one exception.
As in the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is cheerleading for war,
hoping to realize his decades-long dream of overthrowing the Iranian government, while bracing Israel for the expected missile attacks in response.
Trump officials, though, are largely quiet,
proffering scattered arguments about the repressive nature of the regime, the weakness of the regime, the danger of Iran’s medium-range missiles somehow reaching America and, surprisingly, the nuclear threat
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