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Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg criticized President Trump’s strategy for dealing with Iran Thursday, and claimed that U.S. troops are being used as “props.”
“It certainly doesn’t seem it’s being driven by a coherent regional security strategy. So it makes you wonder whether it’s being driven by a domestic political strategy. If so, that’s extremely upsetting,” Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, told Newsweek.
“Yesterday, I was at a ceremony where we were acknowledging South Bend high school students who were committing to go in the military. And the idea that they might be used as props, as has already happened at the border, is really disturbing to think about.”
WIBC host Tony Katz, however, argues Buttigieg couldn’t be more wrong.
“This idea that President Trump is leading us towards a war with Iran is nonsense. You had credible threats with the Iranians, therefore, you had the evacuation of the Embassy, of non essentials in Iraq. Congress wants information about that? Fine.
[The Trump administration] moved the USS Lincoln out of Norfolk into the Mediterranean, and then moved it into the Arabian Sea – it’s there two weeks early. Why? Not as a provocation of war, but as a deterrent, which is something that the U.S. has done for years.
…I would argue against Pete Buttigieg up and down; he is simply wrong that President Trump is somehow taking Iran in a non-serious fashion and leading us into war footing. None of those things are true.”
Click the link below to hear Tony’s full commentary.
