"Whenever a state chooses to go to war... you have to ask—where is the intelligence on the threat? ...[T]he Trump administration ...in hurry mode ...chose to set diplomacy aside, despite the fact that the [mediating] Omani foreign minister ...was convinced that remarkable progress had been made on the issue of Iranian nuclear weapons ...[T]wo other arguments for the war: that the US faced an imminent threat from Iran, and that Iran’s capability threatened the United States. Scratch this last claim—it’s simply not true ...Why would a much-weakened Islamic Republic pose an "imminent threat" ..? Marco Rubio has come forward with an absurd argument ...Does anyone truly believe that Israel would go it alone ...without US backing, that the operation was not jointly planned? ...This is all desperate storytelling, not intelligence."