The Evasion of War: What Vance's Words Reveal About America's Conflict in Iran The distinction between a "war" and a military operation has long been blurred for American presidents, but Vice President JD Vance's recent press briefing highlights this contradiction.
His downplaying of the conflict with Iran as something less than a war perpetuates a pattern of equivocation that is all too familiar in modern American foreign policy.
This tradition dates back decades to the early days of the Cold War and even earlier.