Show-Me Senators Hawley & Schmitt Flip Flopping For Iran Fight?!?

A prog blog partisan argument that probably needs to show a bit more patience . . .

"Josh Hawley and Eric Schmitt have both marketed themselves as realists, skeptics of permanent intervention and the old foreign-policy catechism. Hawley said in 2019 that the point of American foreign policy is 'not to remake the world,' and in 2023 said flatly that 'regime change didn’t work.” Schmitt built a parallel brand in softer packaging, attacking the 'failed Washington way' on foreign policy, repeatedly calling Donald Trump the “peace president” and insisting he did not want 'a forever war in the Middle East.'

"And then came Iran, the moment when rhetoric had to cash out and both men opposed the effort to reassert congressional authority over war powers.

"Hawley — who had earlier said it would be 'a whole different matter' for the United States to affirmatively strike Iran and that he would be 'real concerned' by that prospect — found a way to make his peace with it once it was Trump making the call. He defended Trump’s actions as lawful so long as no ground troops were involved.

"Schmitt, who had spent months selling Trump’s foreign policy in the language of restraint, landed in the same place. Suddenly the old concerns about executive overreach, strategic drift and another Middle East trap looked less like convictions than talking points with expiration dates."

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .

How Josh Hawley and Eric Schmitt learned to stop worrying and love regime change * Missouri Independent

Spend years denouncing the bipartisan cult of stupid wars, then salute smartly when your own president lights the fuse.