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Vice President J.D. Vance has vowed that America will not see “boots on the ground” in Iran.
Vance made the promise as he defended President Donald Trump’s bold airstrikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities.
“We’re not at war with Iran,” Vance told NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
“We’re at war with Iran’s nuclear program.
“We have no interest in a protracted conflict.
“We have no interest in boots on the ground,” he said.
“We didn’t blow up diplomacy.”
Trump has said he has no interest in a prolonged conflict in the Middle East after the United States bombed Iran’s nuclear facilities over the weekend.
The strikes led to criticism from Democrats, as well as some libertarians and non-interventionists on the Right, who feared Trump was breaking a promise not to embroil the U.S. in another war.
Vance, a vocal non-interventionist, said that Trump’s strikes had a limited objective and only came as a last resort.
“We only took this action when it was clear, as the president said, that the Iranians were tapping us along,” he said.
“The Iranians are clearly not very good at war.