I believe in diplomacy, multilateralism, international law, and congressional oversight. I am wary — instinctively and historically — of open-ended war in the Middle East. I’ve been through war in the Middle East more times than I am willing to count.

I have felt the consequences of war first hand. I write these words as I am sitting in my bomb shelter, shielding, with my family,  from yet another ballistic missile attack. I saw first hand the damage inflicted on a building hit by a half-ton warhead. I have relatives who are alive today because they shielded in a bomb shelter.

I count my blessing each and every night that the US and Israel are doing everything to prevent a nuclear Iran. I know that if permitted these conventional warheads could and would turn nuclear if given the opportunity

I also know something else: the Islamic Republic of Iran has spent four decades building a regional architecture of terror aimed at the United States, Israel, and moderate Arab states.

This did not begin last week.

It began in 1979 with American diplomats held hostage in Tehran. It continued in 1983 when 241 U.S. Marines were murdered in Beirut by Iranian-backed operatives. It resurfaced in 1994 with the bombing of the Jewish Federation building in 1994 and the 1996 Khobar Towers bombing. It........

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