Vice President JD Vance took a shot at critics of the White House’s peace negotiations with Iran, saying many of those objecting are the same people who pushed the United States to “just drop a few more bombs in places like Afghanistan” during the global war on terror. Vance made the remarks while addressing U.S. military personnel at Naval Air Station Oceana in Virginia on Wednesday. In particular, Vance said that President Donald Trump launched the Iran war with the objectives of destroying Tehran’s nuclear capabilities, military, and defense industrial base. The vice president said those objectives had been accomplished and now Trump was using the leverage provided by the U.S. military to negotiate an end to the conflict.“He’s negotiating from a position where Iran’s nuclear program has been destroyed and their conventional military has been destroyed too, and what I notice about the people who are attacking the administration for negotiating is that they’re the very same people who, for example, encouraged us to just go a little bit further and just drop a few more bombs in places like Afghanistan,” Vance said.
The vice president also used the speech to draw a contrast between the conflict with Iran and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan during the Bush era.
