Donald Trump’s Lawless Regime-Change War in Iran: No. Not in Our Name.

Wait a minute. Wasn’t this the antiwar president? It’s now up to millions of us stand up and say no.

My cell phone rang at 3 a.m. I looked down to see that it was my wife’s Aunt Jan calling. She lives on the West Coast and is a bit of a night owl. I wondered if maybe she called by mistake, so I didn’t pick it up; I decided to wait and see if she left a message, which would signal intent. A minute or so later, sure enough, the little voicemail icon popped up. So I listened. I thought you’d want to know—the bombing has started. I called her back gratefully. Yes, I sure did want to know.

Right now as I compose this sentence, it’s four-and-a-half hours later, and I imagine people waking up across the Eastern United States to start their Saturdays: moms nudging their kids to get them ready for their basketball or soccer games; dads getting a jump on that trip to the Home Depot; the sales clerks and others who have to work on Saturdays rousing themselves and preparing for their days. And I picture them wiping the sand out of their eyes and picking up their phones or maybe flipping on the kitchen-counter radio and thinking: He did what?!?

It’s so Donald Trump to do this in the middle of the night. It appears that Israel started bombing Iran around 1:30 a.m. East Coast time, and U.S. forces began about 30 minutes later. But 1:30 a.m. ET is 10:00 a.m. Tehran time—the Iranian people were up and about, and military bases were presumably humming and fully staffed. The people he most surprised here were his employers, the citizens of the United States.

And why would he want to do that? “Our objective is to defend the American people by eliminating imminent threats from the Iranian regime, a vicious group of very hard, terrible people,” Trump said in a brief (by his standards, anyway) video posted on Truth Social at 2:30 a.m. “Its menacing activities directly endanger........

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