Originally Posted by Damien

I am confused by your position where you seem to accept it's a stupid war, accept that Trump isn't acting rationally here, but think we should have supported it and him because it's the USA?

I agree that when the US requests our help, we owe it greater hearing than we do other nations because of the support we require from them, but that's not unconditional. If we think they've gone completely off the reservation, then we are not totally beholden to them. Just as if we went mad and decided it was time to invade some country, we shouldn't expect them to come and help us do so.

It's not in our interests to get too involved in military action in Iran. It's even so when you consider the Americans seem to have not only no plan, but no clear objective as to what success would be. Iraq was famously a disaster, but even that had much more planning for the initial stages than this war does. Even by American standards, this is an extremely stupid military endeavour.

You've succumbed to the same reflexive thought that our hyperactive political and media class succumbed to. That there is an American-led war, and therefore we should join without condition. It only takes a few minutes of thought to get past that impulse to ask why and how until you understand what a terrible idea it really is.