If J. D. Vance promised one thing during the 2024 presidential campaign, it was that America would not enter into a war with Iran of the kind that is currently raging. 'America doesn't have to constantly police every region of the world,' Vance told the comedian Tim Dillon on his podcast. He continued: 'Our interest, I think very much, is in not going to war with Iran. It would be a huge distraction of resources. It would be massively expensive to our country.' In another podcast interview, with Shawn Ryan, in September 2024, Vance even said that a war between Israel and Iran was in fact 'the most likely and most dangerous scenario' for provoking World War III. These arguments look farcical now that President Trump has chosen'months after bombing Iran's nuclear facilities and pronouncing its enrichment efforts 'completely and totally obliterated''to join Israel in launching a war on the Islamic Republic. The ensuing conflagration now involves a dozen countries in the Middle East....
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