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Posted on 03/27/2026 6:40:20 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
A majority of the American public, polls suggest, have been against the ongoing US-Israeli military campaign in Iran from the day it started.
Republicans, however, have largely stuck by their president as the war approaches the end of its fourth week.
But that may be changing.
At the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Texas, some of the party faithful expressed concern about why the US started this war, how Donald Trump is going to end it and whether the effort has been worth the costs.
"I just wish that there was more transparency on why we're doing what we're doing, that way you could send your loved one overseas and be OK with that," said Samantha Cassell. "I hope it comes to an end quick, because it's the cost of living, the oil and gas, the prices are only going to keep going up."
Cassell, who lives in Dallas, and her friend Joe Bolick were attending their first CPAC conference. He also had his doubts about the war.
"I don't see an endgame yet," he said. "What are we actually trying to achieve? Is it true regime change? What does that look like? Who to replace them? I think we kind of got ourselves stuck."
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
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<< “I don’t see an endgame yet,” he said. “What are we actually trying to achieve?” >>
People, echoing the media, keep asking the same question despite the fact that the Trump admin has made our goals perfectly clear countless times — the elimination of Iran’s capacity to build nuclear weapons. The rest is gravy.
Iran has been at war with us for 47 years, we’ve just pretended it was not true because our politicians did not want to face the responsibility of taking the right actions that acknowledged that. Iran never should have been allowed to control or threaten the strait of Hormus - never.
Specially crafted polls suggest.
It’s not even a month old is it? Just keep killing Islamic terrorists pleasem. 24/7.
That's exactly the point of this report. Do you think that nonsense means anything to people like this?
Toby Blair, a 19-year-old college student at the University of South Florida, travelled to Dallas for CPAC with his friend Shashank Yalamanchi, a first-year law student. Neither said that they believed the Iran war was in America's best interests.
To young conservatives like this, many Freepers sound like octogenarians from the Civil Rights era complaining about Aunt Jemima pancake syrup.
Even young “Conservatives” have been culturally indoctrinated by the Leftist-Progressive “populists”, to be sure they do not realize what is in U.S. best interests.
What has been the cost of kicking cans down the road for 70 years? Stalin = Warsaw pact, Korea, Vietnam, Iran, China. etc. Should the US have left Cuba alone? Should Trump have let ISIS alone? And now let China control the S. China sea and Taiwan, the Philippines, etc.? And Iran the strait of Hormuz, who never should have gotten as far as they have? Iraq was a misadventure though.
The cost of neglect a well as isolationism is more than dealing with the can when you can.
Another BS article.
The conservatives are at home, raising families.
I’d be surprised if Iran ranks even among the 20 most pressing issues on a list of your average young conservative’s priorities in life these days.
Or it could be that they have enough neurons to observe that America's last attempts at managing conflicts in the Arab world over the past 25 years (Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and Syria) have had less than desirable consequences, and are fully onboard with an option we've never actually tried in living memory: get out and leave them to their own affairs.
Says the BBC 🙄
Truman should never have nuked Japan because he was merely walking up the ladder of an escalation trap and there is no endgame in escalation traps - so says some DS U Chicago prof.
War is futile because you have to escalate to overmatch the capabilities of the other side, to win and that is a trap. That's why no one has ever won a war. Ever...uh,oh...
Here is the logical fallacy and the BBC is playing semantics assuming that what we want is "true" regime change which sounds a like true conservatism produce by neocon RINOs. - When you kill off the present guys and walk away, you get regime change because the present regime is dead. I guess it just doesn't count as "true" regime change. But in the past our view has been to impose our guy and our laws to run the whole place and that falls apart because it always turns out he isn't really our guy, and the guys who he has to depend upon as well as the rest of the country don't want our guy who turns out isn't really our guy anyway, and so we ass9999inate him and get the next our guy in line. Between "our guy" and anyone but the guy who we just killed or are about to kill because he is the previous ruler's cousin or something there is a lot of room to negotiate.
The BBC is quoting someone who attended CPAC: Cassell, who lives in Dallas, and her friend Joe Bolick were attending their first CPAC conference. He also had his doubts about the war. "I don't see an endgame yet," he said. "What are we actually trying to achieve? Is it true regime change? What does that look like? Who to replace them? I think we kind of got ourselves stuck."
If you're going to accuse someone of "playing semantics", at least get it right.
“To young conservatives like this, many Freepers sound like octogenarians from the Civil Rights era complaining about Aunt Jemima pancake syrup.”
Whereas 19 year old Boomer me knew virtually everything about WWII.
Which began 29 years earlier, compared to the 47 years between now and when Iran began acting ugly.
I don’t think that the 18 yr difference is the only reason that we have a generation of incurious dimwits lacking any knowledge of what came before them.
Stupid people lack curiosity. It’s how they roll.
There is nothing remotely “conservative” about supporting a war with Iran - young OR old.
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