March 4 (UPI) -- Five days into this latest war between Israel and its American partner and Iran has raised the most profound and exquisitely unanswerable questions on which success, failure and the nature of much of the future global order will rest.
Assuming the comments made Monday by U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and reaffirmed by House Speaker Mike Johnson were accurate descriptions of the decision for going to war, this was clearly orchestrated by Israel Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu.
Both said that because Israel was about to launch a pre-emptive attack on Iran, facing inevitable retaliation from Tehran, the United States had no choice except to join Israel to avoid absorbing a first Iranian strike.
[Rubio later walked back those comments and President Donald Trump said he may have spurred the Israeli attack.]
What an admission by Rubio! If true, the United States had given its proxy to a foreign government to declare war on the part of America. One wonders if Trump was aware of this absurd condition. And one wonders how Republican members of Congress would agree with this decision to outsource declaring and starting a war.
