It's farcical to blame the Iran war's costs on stopping the war

The war with Iran is at the forefront of the conservative post-mortem following the Republican Party’s disastrous midterm election showing. Yet, notwithstanding debates surrounding the necessity or otherwise of the war, it is farcical for its proponents to blame the war’s negative consequences on its opponents.

The war was controversial from the day it began in February. Its supporters presented the regime-change-focused military action as the key to preventing an imminent Iranian nuclear threat to the United States. They believed in President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s claim that the regime would fall in relatively short — and U.S. painless — order.