If by End the War you mean finish off the regime and come home, I am with you. If you mean leave the regime standing and come home, then check your premises, Senator. What is the proper role of government? You answer that well in economics. In foreign affairs you drop the principle. The one job a government exists to do is protect the individual rights of its citizens from force, and foreign force counts. 1. Do you believe that a regime that has chanted death to America for 47 years would hold a nuclear weapon and not use it? 2. Do you believe protecting us from foreign threats is the job of government or not? 3. Is the record below, coupled with a ruling clergy that treats martyrdom as a virtue, not enough evidence that the threat is real and that ending it is the government's job? Nobody here is asking for nation building. The job is to remove the threat and leave. This is also why you have not won a national primary and most will not back you if you run for President. 84 percent of Republicans backed the strikes on Iran in the March Marist poll, and about 8 in 10 say they make Americans safer. That base will not accept the answer that if we just left them alone they would leave us alone. They have read the record below. Voters can tell when a man means it on the deficit and goes quiet on the people trying to kill them. I am not asking you to abandon a principle. I am asking you to apply it all the way. The Iranian record: US Embassy in Tehran seized, 52 Americans held 444 days. Nov 1979 to Jan 1981 US Embassy in Beirut bombed, 63 killed including 17 Americans. Apr 1983 Marine barracks in Beirut bombed, 241 US servicemen killed. Oct 1983 CIA station chief William Buckley kidnapped in Beirut, tortured and killed in captivity. Mar 1984 to Jun 1985 US Embassy annex in Beirut bombed. Sep 1984 Americans kidnapped and held for years in Lebanon by Hezbollah. 1982 to 1992 Khobar Towers bombed, 19 US airmen killed. Jun 1996 Iranian made EFPs used against US troops in Iraq, 603 Americans killed. 2003 to 2011 Plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador in a Washington restaurant. 2011 American citizens taken as hostages for prisoner swaps and ransom. 2007 to present Ballistic missile strike on US forces at Al Asad, 110 troops with brain injuries. Jan 2020 Plots to assassinate Bolton, Pompeo, and Trump on US soil, charged in federal court. 2022 to 2024 Drone strike on Tower 22 in Jordan, 3 US soldiers killed. Jan 2024 Hundreds of missiles and drones fired at US bases across the Gulf, 13 Americans killed and over 300 wounded within a month. Feb to Mar 2026