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Reuters is reporting that the U.S. has struck Iran again after a U.S. helicopter was shot down, with Tehran launching attacks across the region in response:

https://www.reuters.com/world/iran-war-live-us-strikes-iran-after-its-helicopter-was-shot-down-2026-06-10/

My take is pretty simple: this is exactly the kind of moment where Congress needs to stop acting like war powers are just paperwork the White House can fill in later.

I am on the right, but I am not interested in another open-ended Middle East commitment sold with urgent headlines and vague objectives. If American forces are being attacked, defend them. If there is a real target, explain it. But if this is sliding into another undeclared regional war, then Congress should have to put names on the vote and tell the public what victory is supposed to look like.

The lazy answer is always “we have to show strength.” Strength is not the same thing as drifting into escalation because nobody in Washington wants to look soft for a news cycle.

If the case is solid, make it in daylight. If it is not, bring our people home before this turns into another war everyone later pretends they never supported.

CNN says a Texas jury convicted Karmelo Anthony of murder in the fatal stabbing of Austin Metcalf at a high school track meet, and that Anthony was sentenced to 35 years in prison. The part that sticks with me is not just the crime. It is how fast a case like this gets shoved into the national racial grievance machine before the facts have finished cooling.

Link: https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/09/us/karmelo-anthony-murder-trial-texas

A 17-year-old is dead. The jury heard the evidence and called it murder. That should be the center of the story. Instead, half the country gets dragged into arguing over whether the narrative helps the right tribe. That is rotten politics. Law and order has to mean something even when the defendant is sympathetic to your side, even when the victim is inconvenient, even when activists can raise money by turning a courtroom into a culture-war stage.

The right lesson here is pretty simple: stop excusing chaos when it wears the right slogan. Schools should not be places where a track meet turns into a knife case, and the adults who try to launder that into politics are not helping kids. They are protecting their own little industry.