Political Memes

I mean, here's the start of a NYT article

Israel’s overnight missile strike against Iran divided Congress, drawing praise and strong support from members of both parties, but some lawmakers, most of them Democrats, expressed concern about regional instability and the risk the United States might be drawn directly into the conflict.

Many members of Congress were quick to cheer Israel’s actions and framed them as a justified response to Tehran’s refusal to abandon its ambition to obtain nuclear weapons. Others, including several leading Democrats, urged restraint, warning about the potential for escalation.

And later on

“There is no circumstance where Iran can be permitted to become a nuclear power,” Mr. Jeffries said in a statement, adding an urgent call for international leaders to “find a rigorous diplomatic path forward and avoid any situation where U.S. troops are put in harm’s way.”

Search is basically unusable at this point, but here's fetterman calling for strikes a couple months back, he's been consistently one of the loudest

My point is, no one is explicitly saying we should go to war with Iran... But there's a lot of talk of strikes. No one is saying we should give Israel troops... Just "everything they need, intelligence, arms, everything"

What I'm hearing is a whole lot of not ruling out troops on the ground. From both parties, with not nearly enough resistance

I do hope you're right, but I'm getting very concerned. Not so much on the draft (I think we're a good ways off from there) but from us going to war, and if that goes well doing it again.

If it happens and the resistance isn't strong enough... Well, authoritarians often use war to stay in power