How Bombing Iran May Blow Back on America by Aziz Huq - Project Syndicate
Aziz Huq argues that the U.S. and Israeli aerial assault on Iran sets a dangerous precedent by demonstrating that Trump can deploy military force with disregard for legal constraints. Huq warns that this exercise of unchecked power could embolden the Trump administration to use national-security authority domestically, potentially to justify repression ahead of the midterm elections. The piece acknowledges the deaths of many Iranians under the country's theocratic government while framing the military action as the start of what Huq describes as arbitrary and difficult-to-contain violence.
How Bombing Iran May Blow Back on America
The fact that Donald Trump could unleash the immense power of the US military against Iran with brazen disregard for facts and law will only embolden him to use such powers again. Trailing badly in opinion polls, will he use the backdrop of violence in Iran to justify domestic repression in the run-up to the mid-term elections?
CHICAGO – It is hard to begrudge those who celebrate the demise of Iranian theocrats who have gunned down passels of their people – some estimates reach as high as 30,000 in just the last few months. At the same time, the aerial assault on Iran launched by the United States and Israel heralds a period of undisciplined, unlawful, and arbitrary violence that will be hard to contain.
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