REP BRIAN MAST: Democrats don’t want war powers, they want to wave a white flag

Right now, American forces are engaged against the Iranian regime’s subject infrastructure. Our craft are striking targets. Our servicemembers are defending American lives. This is not theoretical. It’s not academic. It’s real.

And successful the mediate of it, immoderate members of Congress privation to walk a warfare powers solution to unit President Donald Trump to propulsion U.S. forces retired of the portion portion the menace is inactive active, inactive imminent.

That’s not an oversight. That’s surrender dressed up arsenic procedure.

Iran didn’t conscionable aftermath up yesterday arsenic a atrocious actor. For 47 years, its authorities has chanted "death to America," taken our diplomats hostage, bombed our embassies, equipped Hezbollah and Hamas, backed militias that person killed American troops and launched missiles astatine U.S. bases. These are not conscionable one-off attacks, these are imminent threats against the United States, carried retired again and again.

In this U.S. Navy handout, the USS Thomas Hudner fires a Tomahawk onshore onslaught rocket successful enactment of Operation Epic Fury connected March 1, 2026, astatine sea. (U.S. Navy/via Getty Images)

Every president has tried thing antithetic — sanctions, negotiations, diplomatic resets, containment. Iran’s reply has ever been the same: stall, deceive, proceed to money coercion and support building.

Time and again, anemic leaders would alternatively debar decisive enactment and alternatively manus it implicit to multinational coalitions and the United Nations — an instauration that has go truthful useless and corrupt it really named Iran arsenic vice-chair of a U.N. assemblage promoting ideology and women’s rights.

Think astir that. Iran — the state that fines, imprisons, flogs and kills women for not wearing their hijab. A authorities that limits women’s movement, travel, enactment and entree to basal services. And the U.N. puts representatives of that aforesaid authorities successful complaint of women’s rights? The thought that the U.N. would instrumentality meaningful enactment against this menace is downright laughable.

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But it is not conscionable multinational coalitions that person failed to clasp Iran accountable. Our ain anemic leaders successful the U.S. person pursued policies that further emboldened the Ayatollahs. President Barrack Obama’s Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) delivered pallets of currency to Iran and lifted crippling sanctions. The JCPOA did thing to dismantle Iran’s ballistic rocket programme oregon halt Iran’s determination aggression. It was a failed argumentation that funneled currency close into the pockets of Iran’s proxies and emboldened the authorities arsenic it chanted "death to America."

Or we tin speech astir however nether President Joe Biden, Iran gained entree to implicit $16 cardinal successful unfrozen and accessible assets, allowing it to money coercion crossed the globe, and turn the imminent menace Iran has posed against America for decades.

But let’s speech astir what is an "imminent threat."

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The sidesplitting of American soldiers astatine Tower 22 successful Jordan, that is an imminent threat. The embassy bombings successful Beirut successful 1983 and 1984 that took hundreds of lives, that is an imminent threat. And implicit the past 2 decades, repeated rocket and drone attacks against U.S. bases successful Iraq and Syria that person enactment American lives straight successful the crosshairs person each been imminent threats. And those attacks happened earlier Iran had atomic weapons.

Republicans judge an imminent menace existed, and it surely exists present erstwhile an force authorities is actively enriching uranium, designing weapons and stockpiling the materials needed to termination Americans.

An IDF onslaught connected aerial defence systems successful Iran. (IDF)

Democrats enactment similar it’s lone imminent erstwhile the atomic warhead is being bolted onto the rocket and rolled retired onto the motorboat pad aimed astatine the United States.

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The information is existent the infinitesimal they statesman gathering the gun; wherefore would we hold until the weapon is pointed straight astatine our heads to act?

By then, it’s excessively late.

A nuclear-armed Iran would beryllium catastrophic. It would embolden each violent proxy it funds and would destabilize the Middle East overnight. And it would enactment American cities successful scope of a authorities that openly calls for our destruction.

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That’s wherefore enactment present isn’t reckless. It’s prevention and extortion for thousands, if not millions, of Americans.

But present we person Democrats successful Congress pursuing 1 of the astir unsafe pieces of authorities imaginable.

Forcing U.S. forces to retreat mid-conflict wouldn’t "de-escalate" anything. It would rip distant the protective shield that keeps Americans and our allies safe. Thousands of American civilians unrecorded and enactment successful the region. Our diplomats, contractors and businesses beryllium connected U.S. aerial defenses and accelerated effect capabilities. Pull that retired overnight, and you make a vacuum Iran volition gladly fill.

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Every president has tried thing antithetic — sanctions, negotiations, diplomatic resets, containment. Iran’s reply has ever been the same: stall, deceive, proceed to money coercion and support building.

Our allies — Israel and Gulf partners — trust connected our rocket defence systems, our naval patrols and our associated operations. Pull retired now, and you nonstop 1 message: if you unit America agelong enough, we’ll fold and permission our allies retired to adust with American lives astatine risk.

That’s not deterrence. That’s an invitation.

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Congress perfectly has a law role. But that relation doesn’t see sabotaging troops portion they’re successful harm’s way. The warfare powers statement should beryllium astir protecting American lives — not scoring governmental points.

If my colleagues genuinely attraction astir American servicemembers, they should basal down the mission. President Trump has made his nonsubjective wide to Congress and the American radical — destruct each azygous portion of machinery oregon artillery hardware that is capable to scope retired and interaction Americans due to the fact that Iran has proved they volition usage everything successful its arsenal to harm Americans each accidental they get.

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He has implicit and full authorization nether Article II and the War Powers Resolution to region the imminent menace of Iran against the United States, he’s conscionable the archetypal president with the backbone to yet bash it.

I convey him for his decisive actions to support our state safe, I convey each and each 1 of my brothers and sisters-in-arms for their service, and whitethorn God bless America.

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