'It appears we're certainly heading in that direction,' former Joint Chiefs chairman Adm. Mike Mullen said when asked if Bolton is pushing Trump towards a confrontation with Iran. 'John Bolton has that reputation, he's been hawkish forever,' he added.
The former top military adviser to both Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama said on Sunday that he's concerned escalating tensions with Iran"could spin out of control," stressing that the last thing the world needs is the United States going to war with the Middle Eastern country.
One of those politicians, House Armed Services Ranking Member Mac Thornberry told Raddatz that President Donald Trump"is clearly trying to navigate a fine line to show that you cannot attack Americans and American military equipment without having a response." "The critical crisis we have is not just a drone being shot down, but now Iran has moved back to where it was before, which could be months from getting a nuclear weapon, which puts us again in that region on the brink of chaos," he added, also accusing the president of not having a strategy and making the U.S."weaker."
However, leaving for Camp David on Saturday, Trump told reporters"we hadn’t made a decision to go forward" with striking Iran when the retaliatory response was called off, later tweeting,"I never called the strike against Iran 'BACK,' as people are incorrectly reporting." Thornberry told Raddatz on"This Week" that when Trump met with Democratic and Republican congressional leaders Thursday, himself included,"everyone agreed that shooting down an unarmed American aircraft deserved a response," and that all agreed"it should be on the lower end of the range of possibilities."
"The Constitution speaks very clearly on this that he needs to come to Congress before he engages in military action that again could have us tumbling towards chaos and war in that region," he said.
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