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The ‘Imminent Threat’ Canard . . . Again

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06.03.2026

I’m glad Caroline is pushing back on the ill-conceived narrative that Iran did not pose an “imminent threat” to the United States.

In a time when the legal restraints on presidential warmaking are fading into irrelevance, with Congress having made itself increasingly irrelevant, it’s amusing to watch (a) the Democrats and their media scribes try to boost “imminence” into a legal prerequisite for the constitutionally legitimate use of force, and (b) Trump officials stumble into this trap by........

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