Letter: Stand against immoral war on Iran
Published 1:30 am Saturday, March 7, 2026
Editor,
Not again!
News this past week that the U.S. and Israeli forces had attacked Iran made my heart sink. It horrifies me that my country, once again, without the support of the American people, or the Constitutionally required approval of Congress, has unilaterally entered into another costly, tragic, likely prolonged and immoral war of death and destruction in the Middle East.
So now we are expected to abandon our efforts to confront Trump’s dictatorial ambitions and fall in behind him as a powerful war leader and support the war he has created. Instead of headlines questioning the moral integrity and professional competence of the Trump administration, the economic struggles of American families, the presence of the ICE threats, the Epstein scandal, challenges to voting rights, and climate issues, among the list of many other issues Trump would prefer we ignore, we are to focus instead on following the course of the bombing and the valor of our soldiers. The White House announcements about how “grateful” the Iranian people are to be “liberated” by the U.S. bombs, while also killing their people and destroying their country’s infrastructure, are hauntingly similar to depressing reports following the invasion of Iraq.
It is never obvious about how to respond when our country launches into war. One response is for as many of us as possible to unrelentingly name the immorality and folly of all war, and this tragic invasion of Iran in particular. We need to let our federal representatives know they are derelict of their Constitutional duty if they allow the president to declare another tragic war without congressional debate and approval. The people of the US and the whole world do not want war if given the opportunity to express their opposition. Prior to the war on Iraq, for example, several millions of people across the U.S. and the globe demonstrated in opposition to the war. Their opposition was ignored with the result of what has been described as an “endless” war in the Mideast that is now part of the ongoing tragedy of this attack on Iran.
I just keep believing humanity has had enough of wars and wants them stopped. But here we are again with Trump using war to shore up his miserable leadership and failing support. Let us do what we can to practice stopping war by stopping this one, and, by our successes and failures, learn how to prevent the next.
Tom Ewell
Clinton
