Justifying the Iran War

Why are we at war with Iran? To end its nuclear program? To get its oil? To improve the human rights of its citizens? To stop Iran from exporting terrorism?

Unfortunately, the Trump administration has made statements implying that Israel started this war, and we have to be on its side.

There is another reason that people do not want to say. Iran was becoming a China puppet, and maybe this war is to limit China's allies and oil supply.

The NY Post has an op-ed:

Beijing’s slick sales pitches convinced the Iranians to spend their oil billions buying China’s military and telecommunications equipment — like the “state-of-the-art” radar systems that now lie in smoldering ruins after failing to detect the incoming American airstrikes.

But the decapitation of Iran’s leadership and the destruction of its Chinese-made defense arsenal aren’t the worst of Beijing’s Middle East woes.

It goes on to argue that China is the real long-term threat. We are afraid to fight China directly, so we have proxy wars.

See also this interview.