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Fred Fleitz’s appearance on Newsmax’s American Agenda was as blunt as you’d expect from a man who spent his career inside the intelligence world: Iranian officials boast, threaten, and posture, but when it comes to concrete action they have repeatedly come up short, and the United States has answered decisively. Fleitz argued that our limited, targeted operations accomplished the necessary objectives and that it is time to bring American forces home — a commonsense position that puts American interests and American lives first.
The context could not be clearer: U.S. forces and our partners launched offensive operations against Iranian military targets in late February, the administration notified Congress in early March, and under the War Powers Resolution the 60-day clock on undeclared hostilities expired on May 1. Americans who value constitutional process should note that lawmakers responded with a raft of war-powers motions and bills intended to rein in the executive branch even as the administration maintained it had met its legal obligations.
Washington’s performative hand-wringing has been predictable: Democrats and some career politicians loudly demanded votes and hearings, while Senate maneuvering ultimately blocked several resolutions that would have forced a withdrawal or required further authorization. If Republicans who claim to support the commander-in-chief’s prerogatives were serious about supporting the troops, they would have stopped turning war into a partisan game and ensured our people came home on schedule. The messy spectacle in Congress only proves Fleitz’s point about political theater overtaking sober strategy.
President Trump formally notified Congress that the hostilities had been terminated on May 1, a clear signal that the mission met its goals and that continued occupation or open-ended deployments are unnecessary and unjustified. For patriotic conservatives, the choice is obvious: claim victory, account for our successes, and bring service members back to their families rather than letting Washington lock them into endless policing of a region that does not want us there. Letting career politicians or partisan pundits keep feeding our sons and daughters into foreign fire after objectives are met is unacceptable.
Those demanding otherwise cloak political ambition in faux concern for the Constitution; meanwhile they ignore that many of their own allies in Congress introduced competing resolutions spelling out a reasonable withdrawal timeline. Conservatives should make common cause across the aisle with any lawmaker who truly wants to restore congressional prerogative and end forever-wars, while simultaneously backing a president who ordered decisive action and then followed through by ending the mission. The lesson is simple: American power is most effective when it is smart, limited, and followed by a prompt return home for our troops.
