What Congress Can Learn From Vietnam About the War in Iran

“The American people don't know what the heck we're fighting for in Iran. He's [President Trump] never made it clear. He changes his mind day-to-day and minute-to-minute. This war must end. It must end. And make no mistake, whenever Trump defies the will of the American people or the law, we will launch investigations, take him to court, and entangle him in legislative razor wire. The days of Trump's supplicant Senate are over.”That was Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), currently in line to be sworn in as Senate Majority Leader when the new Congress meets January 4, 2027, speaking last Wednesday about his plans for next year’s Senate.The Schumer suggestion that when Congress convenes its 120th session next January, the chairman of a Democratic-run Senate committee could be initiating an investigation into President Trump’s Iran War took me back 58 years to 1969.That was when I had been hired by then-Chairman Sen. J. William Fulbright (D-Ark.) of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for 18 months to be chief of staff of an investigative subcommittee looking into U.S. military involvement in American foreign policy during the time of the Vietnam War.A Fulbright subcommittee investigat...