Trump administration offers range of rationales for attacking Iran

In striking Iran, the United States isn’t responding to an attack, as when the Japanese raid on Pearl Harbor drew the country into World War II. It’s not coming to the aid of an ally, as when it led a coalition to drive Iraqi forces out of Kuwait in the Gulf War. The Trump administration hasn’t presented a formal case for war, as the George W. Bush administration did before the 2003 invasion of Iraq.