Sara Jacobs Asks if the U.S. Is at War With Iran as Elbridge Colby Says “Military Action”

Rep. Sara Jacobs pressed the Trump administration on whether the United States is officially at w*r with Iran, as Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Elbridge Colby carefully avoided the term during his Senate Armed Services Committee testimony. Colby described the campaign as a "military action" with "scoped and reasonable objectives" focused on dismantling Iran's missile capabilities, drone program, and navy — while insisting it does not constitute interventionism, endless w*r, or nation-building. Jacobs had earlier called the strikes "one of the biggest foreign policy blunders in American history," warning they set the US up for another quagmire in the Middle East. Colby faced a bipartisan grilling as Democrats highlighted glaring contradictions between the ongoing w*r and the administration's own National Defense Strategy, which pledged the Pentagon would no longer be "distracted by interventionism, endless w*rs, regime change, and nation building." Sen. Elizabeth Warren cornered Colby on the point, and he struggled to explain how bombing another country and k*lling its supreme leader didn't qualify. When asked about the strikes that k*lled Khamenei and top Iranian officials, Colby deflected, saying "those are Israeli operations." With six US service members dead, no congressional authorization, and a Reuters poll showing just 27 percent public support, the administration faces mounting pressure to define its endgame.