{"id":21705,"date":"2026-03-04T18:46:28","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T18:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=21705"},"modified":"2026-03-04T18:46:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T18:46:28","slug":"the-us-2026-war-on-iran-is-unconstitutional-but-justified-howeveris-it-a-good-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=21705","title":{"rendered":"The US 2026 war on Iran is unconstitutional, but justified, however\u2026is it a good idea?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The US military is awesome, but I\u2019m skeptical it will achieve substantial war aims. Killing a lot of people and destroying a lot of equipment is a means to an end. It means very little if we don\u2019t have a long-term major success. I\u2019m skeptical the US and Israel will get there, but I hope they do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The US 2026 war on Iran is unconstitutional, but justified, however\u2026is it a good idea?\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uxiMswJVBI4?start=2&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US military is awesome, but I\u2019m skeptical it will achieve substantial war aims. Killing a lot of people and destroying a lot of equipment is a means to an end. It means very little if we don\u2019t have a long-term major success. I\u2019m skeptical the US and Israel will get there, but I hope they do.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uxiMswJVBI4&#038;t=2s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[616],"tags":[336,173,436,552,429,190,221,272,355,314,156,391,259,191,170,747,158],"class_list":["post-21705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lone-candle-video","tag-attack","tag-bomb","tag-bombs","tag-conflict","tag-constitution","tag-constitutional","tag-donald-trump","tag-foreign-affairs","tag-foreign-policy","tag-international-relations","tag-iran","tag-middle-east","tag-military","tag-strike","tag-trump","tag-unconstitutional","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21705"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21706,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21705\/revisions\/21706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}