Mike Davis says Trump’s air strikes on Iran were legitimate and necessary
Khamenei never tried to hide his thirst for American blood. Two weeks ago, he posted on X threatening to sink American ships. He planned to assassinate President Trump before the November 2024 election, deploying an assassination squad on US soil armed with surface-to-air missiles.
This forced Trump’s Secret Service team to use a decoy aircraft.
A screenshot from a video posted to President Donald Trump’s Truth Social account shows Trump making remarks about combat operations in Iran on February 28, 2026. in Palm Beach, Florida. (US President Trump via Truth Social/Anadolu via Getty Images)
These are just the latest events in the Islamic terror war that Iran has been waging against the United States for 47 years. In 1979, Iran took American hostages At our embassy in Tehran, and tortured in horrific captivity for 444 days.
In 1983, Iran bombed US Marine barracks in Beirut, Lebanon, killing 241 US military personnel. In 1996, Iran bombed and killed Americans in Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia. In 2000, Iran attacked the US destroyer USS Cole. During the Iraq War, Iran armed terrorist insurgents, who then used their weapons to slaughter and maim hundreds of American troops.
Iran has declared — and relentlessly waged — war on America for 47 years. However, President Trump’s critics now insist that his highly surgical and successive operation to eliminate Khamenei and his fellow Islamist terrorists was illegal because Article 1 of the penal code was illegal. Constitution of the United States It gives Congress, not the chief executive, the authority to declare war. As usual, The Peanuts Gallery is as inauthentic as it is weak.
Indeed, the United States Constitution gives Congress the power to “declare” war, and the Founders were deliberate in their choice of words: James Madison and Founding Father Elbridge Gerry chose them as an alternative to the power to “make” war. Their justifications? He left “the power to repel surprise attacks to the executive branch.”
Or as Alexander Hamilton explained to Congress in 1801, “When a foreign power declares war upon the United States, or openly and openly wages it, it is in fact already at war, and any declaration on the part of Congress is worthless.”
There is no such thing as a one-sided war.
Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei addresses the public on the 47th anniversary of the Iranian Revolution, according to Iranian state television in Tehran, Iran, February 9, 2026. (Iranian leader’s press office/Anadolu via Getty Images)
In return, the president has the authority — a constitutional duty — as commander-in-chief to repel invasions and defend Americans from attack. This argument did not remain just a legal theory. Shortly after Japan was bombed Pearl Harbor In 1941, Hitler declared war on the United States.
Although the Germans greatly outgunned us, Franklin Roosevelt did not need to wait for a formal declaration of war from Congress to respond. In 1803, Thomas Jefferson deployed his naval forces against Barbary pirates, the predecessors to today’s Iranian Islamic terrorists, without waiting for congressional approval.
In 1973, Congress tried to rein it in Presidential military authority through the War Powers Resolution. Overriding President Nixon’s veto, the resolution requires presidents to withdraw troops from combat if Congress does not approve their deployment after 60 days, a mechanism referred to as a “legislative veto.”
Every president since Nixon, whether Democrat or Republican, has rejected the War Powers Resolution as unconstitutional. In 1999, President Clinton took military action to stop the mass killing of Serbian dictator Slobodan Milosevic. In 2011, President Obama deployed the military to oust Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.
In both cases, members of Congress sued, alleging violations of the War Powers Resolution. In both cases they lost. Now, having learned nothing, members of Congress are threatening to do the same to President Trump.
If the Legislature wants to stop military action, it has legitimate means to do so. It can be enacted as any other law passed by Congress. It can refuse to fund the army. The Supreme Court struck down the concept of a legislative veto in 1983, and for good reason. Our Constitution has set out procedures for legislative change. Members of Congress cannot bypass our system of checks and balances for convenience.
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Last year, our Supreme Leader sent Iran a crystal clear warning when Trump crippled Iran’s nuclear weapons program in Operation Midnight Hammer. The system did not understand the message. President Obama dealt with stubborn Iran by sending cash to Khamenei. President Trump has dealt with a stubborn and deadly Iran Sending Khamenei planes loaded with bombs.
President Trump does not need authorization from Congress to prevent the next Pearl Harbor. As it turns out, it is difficult for Iran’s Supreme Leader to sink American ships when his home is in ruins, a charred skeleton. That’s it, Ayatollah. And to his advocates in Congress, sorry for your loss.
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