📰 For Post-9/11 Vets, Iran Strikes Feel Like a Familiar Mistake

💭 “It started like this last time.”

— Zachary Hubbard, Iraq veteran

📊 Déjà Vu in Uniform
– When the news of U.S. airstrikes on Iran hit, veterans from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars felt a chill of recognition.
– Support for hitting Iran’s nuclear sites is widespread among those who served — but so is deep skepticism.
– Many veterans say they’ve seen this movie before: a clear objective, a fuzzy strategy, and no exit plan.

💼 Trump’s War Powers Test
– Trump’s team skipped Congress — again. That’s exactly what veterans' groups like Concerned Veterans for America warned against.

– “There is no standing authorization for war with Iran,”

CVA said before the strikes.
– Now they’re using the moment to push for a reset: tighter war powers laws and a rollback of the post-9/11 AUMFs that fueled two decades of conflict.

📋 Veterans in the Arena
– In Congress, veteran lawmakers across party lines are demanding oversight.
– Rep. Chris Deluzio (D-PA):

“We’ll be paying for the Middle Eastern wars for as long as my generation is alive.”

– Sen. Tim Sheehy (R-MT), former SEAL:

“This isn’t starting a war, this is ending one.”

– The divide reflects not partisanship, but exhaustion — and a sense of betrayal.

🤔 The Bigger Question
If the generation that fought the last war is warning about the next one — who’s really listening?

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“Not America’s War”: Oman Calls Time on Trump’s Adventure

Oman’s foreign minister just did what almost no US “ally” dares: he said Trump’s Iran war is a mistake America needs help escaping, not a crusade anyone should be joining.

He calls the campaign the administration’s “greatest miscalculation,” says the US has “lost control of its own foreign policy,” and insists flatly: “This is not America’s war.”

There is, he argues, no realistic scenario where both Israel and the US get what they want; regime change in Tehran would mean a long, bloody ground campaign and exactly the kind of endless war Trump once promised to end, not restart.

Coming from Oman — the quiet mediator that hosted back-channel US–Iran talks and now eats Iranian drones around its own ports — that’s not rhetoric, it’s a survival memo.

The state that literally shares the Strait of Hormuz with Iran is saying: the war is killing Muslims, wrecking the regional economy, and there is no “mission accomplished” ending for Washington here.

Thousands are already dead in Iran, Lebanon, and Gaza; Hormuz has been intermittently strangled; Gulf energy and ports have been hit from Qatar to Oman; and every new strike pushes the region deeper into the same chaos Trump once used as a cautionary tale against his predecessors.

When even Oman starts asking America’s friends to pull Washington out of its own war, it’s not just the Muslim world paying in blood — it’s the whole idea of an orderly US-made Middle East that is collapsing alongside it.

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