Republicans Toil to Avoid Saying ‘War’

New York Times: “When President Trump gave reporters a brief update this week on the accelerating bombing campaign against Iran, he said: ‘We’re doing very well on the war front.'”

“That complicated matters for Republicans on Capitol Hill, who have spent the days since the U.S.-Israeli attacks began engaging in semantic gymnastics to describe the widening conflict as a ‘major combat operation,’ a ‘mission,’ ‘hostilities’ or really just anything other than ‘war.'”