{"id":2591258,"date":"2026-04-15T17:39:42","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T21:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-cant-update-their-script-on-the-iran-war-to-incorporate-new-realities\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T17:43:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T21:43:35","slug":"democrats-cant-update-their-script-on-the-iran-war-to-incorporate-new-realities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-cant-update-their-script-on-the-iran-war-to-incorporate-new-realities\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats Can&#8217;t Update Their Script On The Iran War To Incorporate New Realities"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdemocrats-cant-update-their-script-on-the-iran-war-to-incorporate-new-realities%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2591258&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>the piece argues that Senator chris Murphy\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-vivek-ramaswamy-rules-out-use-of-military-force-against-iran\/\" title=\"Vivek Ramaswamy opposes military action on ....\">anti-war stance<\/a> against any Trump administration action in Iran is more theatrical than grounded in current realities. It contends that Democrats have a history of loud, symbolic motions to \u201cend\u201d-or block-wars that are not clearly ongoing, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/disney-executives-ask-the-view-hosts-to-tone-down-political-rhetoric\/\" title=\"Disney executives ask The View hosts to tone down political rhetoric\">citing past episodes<\/a> around Venezuela as examples of rhetorical theatrics that produced little substance. The author notes Murphy\u2019s weekly votes and public statements as part of a pattern of performative opposition rather than effective policy.<\/p>\n<p>Key points:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The author stresses that the situation in Iran is evolving and uncertain, with strategic dynamics centered on the Strait of Hormuz showing that chokepoints can affect both sides.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; It\u2019s argued that military risk is real for both the United states and Iran, and simplistic declarations about ending the war don\u2019t capture the complexity of the conflict.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The piece cautions against equating current events with past conflicts (e.g., Vietnam) and warns that a ceasefire could be temporary or lead to a fragile peace.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The article concludes that the ending of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/disturbing-video-female-american-journalist-kidnapped-by-iranian-backed-terrorists-as-men-walking-past-do-nothing\/\" title=\"Disturbing Video: Female American Journalist Kidnapped by ...ian...Backed Terrorists as Men Walking Past Do Nothing\">conflict remains unclear<\/a> and urges readers to recognize that events are developing beyond <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >partisan talking points<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The author,Chris Bray,is a senior correspondent at The Federalist and a former infantry sergeant.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The Democrat Sen. Chris Murphy appears to know just one thing, and that one thing is that Donald Trump is very bad. To Murphy, all events prove this. No other conclusions are possible. Someone ran a red light in Enid, Oklahoma, this morning, and a diner in Michigan ran out of whole milk during the breakfast rush: You see, Trump is a danger to America.<\/p>\n<p>And so, at this exact moment, Murphy proposes to stop Trump&rsquo;s &ldquo;insane war,&rdquo; a war that has very tenuously paused for peace talks and a ceasefire. Loudly and with great theatrical zeal, he proposes to stop a thing that is stopped.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I&#8217;m helping to lead a group of Senate Democrats who are planning to force a vote &ndash; every single week the Senate is in session &ndash; to end the war in Iran. We have that right under the Senate rules, and we are going to keep putting Republicans on record supporting this insane war. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IqS4PmLbXM\">pic.twitter.com\/IqS4PmLbXM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Chris Murphy &#128999; (@ChrisMurphyCT) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChrisMurphyCT\/status\/2044439311790010385?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 15, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>It&rsquo;s like a man runs who into the theater, ignoring the empty stage and the house lights and the audience walking to the exits, and announces that he&rsquo;s come to stop the show.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats have done this before. The American military raided Caracas on Jan. 3, then left. No war resulted. No hostilities continued. Days and then weeks later, congressional Democrats were still engaged in meaningless theatrics, boldly declaring their intention to stop Trump&rsquo;s war in Venezuela. Which didn&rsquo;t exist.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">My statement slamming Republicans&rsquo; procedural motion to sidestep my War Powers Resolution to block the use of the U.S. Armed Forces to engage in hostilities within or against Venezuela unless authorized by Congress: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Dh2ikNN5oC\">pic.twitter.com\/Dh2ikNN5oC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Senator Tim Kaine (@SenTimKaine) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenTimKaine\/status\/2011614176901575144?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 15, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>They were fighting ghosts, or the noises in their own heads.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<div lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>Today, the house deadlocked 215-215 on my resolution to prohibit Donald Trump from engaging in additional unauthorized hostilities in Venezuela without Congressional approval&mdash;which means it failed in a tie vote.<\/p>\n<p>Speaker Johnson had to hold a two minute vote open for half an&hellip;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&mdash; Rep. Jim McGovern (@RepMcGovern) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepMcGovern\/status\/2014526824051622324?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 23, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Wars mature. A bunch of stuff happens, and no one understands the action, because of the inherent chaos of large-scale violence. &ldquo;The fog of war.&rdquo; But then we arrive at inflection points, and maybe the fog parts, just a little. We get some modest clarity on murky things that have been happening in an atmosphere of sustained uncertainty.<\/p>\n<p>Without saying that we can <em>know<\/em> all of this, because war is the enemy of certainty, a few new realities seem to be emerging. First, the Iranian strength of controlling the Strait of Hormuz chokepoint is turning out to work both ways. Kharg Island, the critical oil production center for the Iranians, is 300 miles north of the strait, inside and above it. The chokepoint isn&rsquo;t just a chokepoint that Iran can impose on the world &mdash;&nbsp;it&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Q8Strategic\/status\/2044489972225396911\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">both<\/a> things, a chokepoint Iran can impose that can be imposed on Iran. The Iranian economy can be strangled by the same chokepoint. The Trump administration, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/04\/15\/us-strait-of-hormuz-blockade-navy-iran-seaborne-trade-oil-trump.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">imposing a naval blockade<\/a> on the strait that Iran was blockading, just identified that reality with brutal clarity.<\/p>\n<p>A bunch of military axioms focus on the way that the risks of combat bounce and echo. &ldquo;If the enemy is in range, so are you,&rdquo; and &ldquo;tracers work both ways.&rdquo; You can oppose the war, or doubt the wisdom of starting it, and see that <em>both<\/em> sides face risk from fighting it. The risks for Iran are emerging, and the way they play out remains to be seen. A bunch of professional military planners at CENTCOM probably know what they are.<\/p>\n<p>Update your cognitive maps, or you end up like Chris Murphy. Senate Democrats now scream that they intend to end Trump&rsquo;s war, while Trump &hellip; says that he intends to end Trump&rsquo;s war. Events continue. Last week&rsquo;s talking points won&rsquo;t work this week. It&rsquo;s also probably way too early to say, as people seem to enjoy saying, that Iran is a disaster just like Vietnam.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Iran is Trump&#8217;s Vietnam. Make no mistake: the United States attacked a sovereign country that posed no imminent threat. What Trump doesn&#8217;t understand is that the Iranians are prepared to fight to the death, just like the vietnamese 60 years ago. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ER3jkTQS2k\">pic.twitter.com\/ER3jkTQS2k<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Steve Siebold (@Siebold) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Siebold\/status\/2030789813482279133?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 8, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The ending of the war remains unclear, and the ceasefire might turn out to only be an operational pause before fighting resumes. Or it might presage a fragile and messy peace, or it might precede a lasting peace made on reasonable terms. But notice that events are <em>developing<\/em>. And if you get a chance, mention that simple fact to Chris Murphy. <\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Chris Bray is a senior correspondent at The Federalist and a former infantry sergeant in the U.S. Army. He has a history PhD from the University of California Los Angeles, not that it did him any good. He also posts on Substack, at &#8220;Tell Me How This Ends,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/chrisbray.substack.com\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Murphy sees Trump as evil; pushes to end Iran war<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2086,"featured_media":2591259,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/murphy-presser-scaled.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546,33651],"tags":[3685,3823,4326,22757,50434],"class_list":["post-2591258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","category-the-western-journal","tag-democrats","tag-iran","tag-policy","tag-realities","tag-war-2"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/murphy-presser-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2591258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2086"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2591258"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2591258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2591262,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2591258\/revisions\/2591262"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2591259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2591258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2591258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2591258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}