MaddowBlog-Haunted by his record, JD Vance tries and fails to put a spin on the war in Iran

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According to the vice president, the U.S. went to war because Iran was “committed to getting on that brink of a nuclear weapon.” The line needs some work.

According to JD Vance, Trump launched a war because Iran was “committed to getting on that brink of a nuclear weapon.”

Read that sentence again and realize that this was the best he could come up with after thinking about the administration’s policy for three days.
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— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2026-03-03T15:04:51.543Z

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When it comes to foreign interventionism, Donald Trump’s team features a variety of prominent skeptics, but none of them has gone further than JD Vance. Indeed, as MS NOW summarized over the weekend, the incumbent vice president has “built his political identity in part on rejecting what he characterized as decades of failed American interventionism in the Middle East.”....

It was a rather brief interview. Vance said the ongoing mission in Iran is different from other recent wars in the Middle East because “the president has clearly defined what he wants to accomplish.” Given that Trump has done no such thing, I was left wondering whether Vance was referring to some other president.

But there was another part of the interview that stood out as especially notable.

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.....The relevant phrase went by quickly, but it’s worth dwelling on: According to the vice president, the U.S. went to war not because Iran was on the brink of acquiring a nuclear weapon, but because it was “committed to getting on that brink of a nuclear weapon.”

The rhetoric would have been amusing were we not talking about matters of life and death. By Vance’s own reasoning, Iran didn’t have a nuclear weapon. It didn’t even have the capability of developing a nuclear weapon. But the U.S. is at war anyway because, according to the vice president, Iran was “committed” to eventually, at some point in the future, reaching the point at which it would be on the “brink” of a nuclear weapon.

All things considered, perhaps the Ohioan would have been better off remaining “conspicuously quiet.”

[AZJonnie]

1. Judged against this standard, Saddam's suspected WMD's were a goddamn Pearl Harbor

These people are so fucking full of shit.

And anyone who believes a WORD they say is a FUCKING MORON.

And a cultist.