The threshold for US military intervention in foreign conflicts should be extremely high, requiring clear justification and evidence beyond speculation.

“I think the issue is that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence and I'm just not seeing that. And you look on X and there are people beating the same drum from Iraq saying the Iranians just want to be liberated. It's the same Dick Cheney line for we'll be greeted as liberators. And I t”

President Trump is a highly interventionist and internationalist leader who pursues his foreign policy goals regardless of the domestic political costs.

“He is very interventionist and I would say he's also an internationalist. He really seeks the international stage, whether it's negotiating peace deals or inflicting military action to try to transform the situation.”

The current military conflict in Iran is a war of choice that will take significant time and resources to resolve.

“We are in a war of choice. We have taken preemptive action to kill a leader of another country. And we are talking about regime change in a regime -- in a regime like Iran, that is going to take months and resources, all of that impacting what happens here domestically.”