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Source: Gloucester Daily Times

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... To the editor:President Donald Trump launched the Iran war without congressional authorization and ignored the War Powers Resolution’s 60‑day limit, exploiting the fact that it cannot be enforced. The result is a conflict that functions as a forever war. His objectives are unclear and constantly shifting — the defining traits of forever wars, which rely on open‑ended aims, changing rationales, no path to victory, and self‑perpetuating escalation.kAm%CF>A’D :?:E:2= 8@2= H2D DE@AA:?8 xC2? 7C@> 6G6C 56G6=@A:?8 2 ?F4=62C H62A@?[ 3FE 96 ?6G6C 567:?65 H92E DF446DD >62?E @C 9@H E96 H2C H@F=5 6?5] #646?E=J[ 96 25565 C68:>6 492?86] %CJ:?8 E@ 7@C46 2 4@F?ECJ :?E@ DF3>:DD:@? H:E9@FE 5:A=@>24J :D 7FE:=6j J@F 42??@E 3@>3 2H2J xC2?’D 2>3:E:@? E@ 6?C:49 FC2?:F>[ @?=J 56E6C :E — 2?5 56E6CC6?46 2=C625J 6I:DE65 E9C@F89 E96 yr!~p — E96 y@:?E r@>AC696?D:G6 !=2? @7 p4E:@?[ 65 Sbg 3:==:@? E@ Sca 3:==:@? :? ;FDE D6G6?

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