Among U.S. politicians, there's one narrative you'll hear repeated over and over.

Iran, the story goes, can't be allowed to get a nuclear weapon.

Iran is just too unstable, too theocratic, downright evil.

Supposedly serious adults like Senator Ted Cruz will use the words the bad guys to describe Iran,

like three-year-olds playing with action figures. And because Iranians are the bad guys,

it's supposedly legitimate to attack and kill them in order to prevent them ever getting

that terrifying nuke. That's exactly what President Donald Trump has just done.

In a joint series of U.S.-Israeli airstrikes that killed Ayatollah Khomeini, Iran's head of state,

bombed residential neighborhoods all over Tehran, and destroyed a girl's school in the city of Minab, killing at least 156 of its students,

along with many other civilian casualties.

We're now at war with Iran, thanks to this narrative about nuclear weapons.

And the consequences for the entire world may be disastrous.

But plenty of top Democrats have bought into this pro-war narrative, too. In his statement about Trump's Iran strikes, Gavin Newsom, who's supposedly a presidential frontrunner,

began by saying that the Iranian regime must never have nuclear weapons. The leadership of Iran must go.

And in his own statement, Josh Shapiro repeated that very same mantra, saying that Iran must never

be allowed to possess nuclear weapons. Both of them, believe the same thing, that the United States

should control access to nuclear arms worldwide, dictating who is and isn't allowed in the nuclear

club, and that the United States should violently punish any nation that tries to develop nuclear weapons without U.S. approval.

In that way, they're exactly the same as Trump.

They don't actually disagree with Trump's goals, only the way he pursues them.

But there's a great big elephant in the room here.

If the possibility that Iran might get a nuclear weapon is supposed to be so scary, and why do none of

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