Wars of Choice

The military campaign against Iran represents a necessary, morally justified effort to neutralize a regime committed to nuclear proliferation and state-sponsored terrorism, distinct from the unprovoked, imperialist aggression characterizing Russia’s war in Ukraine. Critics who equate these conflicts rely on false analogies to evade accountability for failed foreign policy strategies and to undermine effective power projection. This intellectual dishonesty reflects a broader cultural trend of "de-judifying" Jewish history, evidenced by the sanitization of Rachel Goldberg-Polin’s memoir and the promotion of misleading journalistic imagery. Such efforts to strip the particularity from Jewish suffering mirror historical attempts to universalize the Holocaust, effectively obscuring the unique existential threats faced by the Jewish people. Ultimately, the refusal to recognize these moral distinctions serves to protect established political narratives while ignoring the realities of global security.