Trump shifting goals, expectations for Iran war: dangerous! 

President Trump says his war with Iran won’t be “endless.” He says it could last four to five weeks — or “far longer.” And that right there is the tension. Because if you listen closely, the mission keeps moving.  

Members of Congress are struggling to pin down the objective. Here’s Virginia Sen. Mark Warner: “There was no imminent threat to the United States of America by the Iranians. There was a threat to Israel. If we equate a threat to Israel as an imminent threat to the United States, then we are in uncharted territory.”  

He went on to say, “We have seen the goals of this operation change about 4-5 times. A week ago it was about the Iranian nuclear capacity, a few days later it was about taking out the ballistic missiles.”  

Warner continued that then it was “in the president’s own words about regime change and now we hear it’s about sinking the Iranian fleet.” 

That’s not coming from the political left alone. There’s frustration inside his own MAGA base, the same voters who embraced “America First” and a promise to end forever wars, not start new ones.  

Here’s what we do know. The president says the U.S.........

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