Officials briefed him on risks including missile strikes on U.S. bases, proxy attacks in Iraq and Syria, and limits to regional air defenses.

One official said the operation carried “no guaranteed outcome.”

Trump acknowledged the stakes, saying “the lives of courageous American heroes may be lost,” but called it “a noble mission,” vowing to “destroy their missiles,” “raze their missile industry,” and “annihilate their navy.”

Source: Reuters

Today’s military strikes on Iran — carried out by the United States and Israel — mark a catastrophic escalation in an illegal war of aggression.

Bombing cities. Killing civilians. Opening a new theater of war. Americans do not want this. They do not want another war in pursuit of regime change. They want relief from the affordability crisis. They want peace.