Suddenly the antiwar president is threatening to take the U.S. into war with Iran. He may have thought threats would be enough to get Iran to give in to his demand for “unconditional surrender,” but it only brought a return threat from Iran to inflict “irreparable damage” if the U.S. intervenes. President Trump thought blocking Israel from assassinating Ayatollah Ali Khamenei would bring gratitude from the Iranian leader, but that didn’t work either. Threatening assassination is good only for getting assassinated. Wars are easy to start, hard to stop. Peace is the more difficult way. There’s a lot more to making peace than being antiwar. – Fletcher Farrar, editor
This article appears in The College Crisis.
