(The Center Square) – One of southeast Wisconsin’s congressmen says there is a clear path to victory in the war against Iran.
Republican Bryan Steil said he hopes negotiations can bring an end to the air strikes that have pummeled Iran for nearly a month, but he said the United States can’t walk away and allow Iran to continue to be a threat.
“The best case scenario is that the regime would fall and we would have reasonable leaders,” Steil said in an interview on News Talk 1130 WISN. “But let’s go one level below that. I think what we need to see is that Iran is not capable of developing a nuclear weapon, or the ability to deliver that with ballistic missiles. Second, we need to stop them from being a state sponsor of terrorism the activities.”
Steil said President Donald Trump has been clear that he doesn’t want to allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon, just like every other modern president before him.
“Iran has been threatening the region and the United States through both their funding of terrorism largest state sponsor of terrorism in the globe, as well as their mission to try to develop not only a nuclear weapon but ballistic missiles,” Steil added. “The president is engaged in negotiations to make sure that the broader goal, again not sponsoring terrorism around not having a nuclear weapon that they could deliver with ballistic missiles, to be able to give all of us want to see peace in this region.”
Still, Steil did not say what victory in Iran should look like, or when the attacks should end.
“The activities that have taken by President Trump, in his role as commander-in-chief, have been to degrade Iran’s ability to develop that nuclear weapon, degrade their ability to develop missiles to deliver, and ultimately clip their wings on the financing side so they cannot continue to support terrorism around the globe,” Steil said. “I think what we will see is that part of the actions being successful.”
Wisconsin Democratic U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin, however, worried that victory in Iran will come with a huge cost.
“The President just ordered 3,000 ground troops to be deployed to the Middle East,” Baldwin wrote on social media on Tuesday. “These are Americans’ sons and daughters who are at risk now because of this illegal war. Each day, we are getting closer to boots on the ground in Iran, and I’m doing everything I can to stop it.”
