An Iranian flag rises from the rubble of a damaged police station damaged on Tuesday in Tehran.

They don’t call it the Department of War for nothing.

The Trump administration’s self-renamed Department of Defense is living up to its MAGA moniker by waging war with Iran.

The U.S. and Israel attacked Iran with airstrikes on Saturday. The reasons are wobbly: to thwart Iran’s nuclear weapons program or to topple the country’s dictatorship and free its people or to defend Israel.

Article continues below this ad

And conveniently for President Donald Trump, war is now the big news story, and questions about the president and the Epstein files have dropped off the radar.

So far, there’s no end in sight to the war.

See more S.F. Chronicle on Google

Trump said Monday that the war could last four to five weeks or, “Whatever it takes … we have capability to go far longer than that.” 

Of course, nobody wants war, except maybe the Department of War, and Trump is taking flak from parts of MAGA who don’t believe putting........

© San Francisco Chronicle