Cato Institute senior fellow Ted Galen Carpenter writes, “If the congressional hawks and their allies in the foreign policy community and the conservative news media have their way, than war with Iran would be inevitable. But as such beaters of war drums contend, this is not a cause for worry, as the resulting conflict would be a strictly limited affair.”
But as Carpenter concludes, “The main fallacy in the professed hawkish case for limited war is that the United States would be in control of the escalation process.”
