Will the Iran-Israel war suck in the US?

WHEN US President Donald Trump fired Mike Waltz from his job as the national security adviser at the beginning of May, the general consensus in Washington was that the anti-war faction in the administration was winning the battle for the president’s foreign policy agenda.

Indeed, Waltz was a member of the pro-Israel wing of the Republican Party, also known as neoconservatives, who supported a tough US posture in dealing with Iran’s efforts to acquire nuclear military capabilities.

Critics had accused Waltz and other “neocons” in the National Security Council of collaborating with Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in his attempts to win the White House’s support for giving a green light to the Jewish State to attack the Islamic Republic’s nuclear sites.