Preemptive War, Permanent Emergency: The Real Cost of Trump’s Iran Strike

Photograph Source: Mahnaz Ghobakhloo

“‘Peace, peace,’ they say, when there is no peace.”

—Jeremiah 6:13–14

The military-industrial complex and the American police state have joined forces.

War abroad and war at home are no longer separate enterprises. They have fused.

This did not happen overnight.

Every modern president has stretched the limits of war-making power. Some have shredded those limits altogether.

Each time that boundary is breached, the Constitution recedes a little further.