President Donald Trump’s war in Iran has cost Americans in a number of obvious ways, MS NOW’s Rachel Maddow said on Monday — but it is costing them in a number of subtler and more insidious ways too.
Nothing demonstrates this better, she explained, than a possible terror threat that didn’t even affect the United States — a set of five men in suspicious vans who were arrested in the U.K., which raised immediate alarms there.
In July, Maddow explained, “Iran told the U.K. explicitly that if any British base was used by the U.S. military for this war against iran, that would make that base in the U.K. a legitimate military target for Iran,” said Maddow. Now, she said, when today we learn “that five young men had been arrested and those vans were seized outside the gates of this rural air base, well, there was, for obvious reasons, lots and lots of speculation about who these five young men might be and what this might have all been about. Lots of speculation, lots of worry, and then lots of head scratching.”
The investigation is only beginning, Maddow said, even as the five were granted bail. But it highlights security threats that could soon find their way to the United States, too.
“Here in the United States, it raises an important question about the cost of Trump’s war in Iran,” said Maddow. “Raises the question as to whether the cost of Trump’s war in iran is something that we’ve really adequately grappled with. Is it a cost that’s not just going to be measured in lives lost and people injured and and buildings destroyed, and facilities and aircraft and equipment destroyed, and the shuttering of the Strait of Hormuz and all the other oil transit routes and infrastructure that have driven your gas and gas and diesel prices and fertilizer prices to all time record highs, the multi-billion dollar cost just of anti-aircraft munitions alone, let alone all the other missiles and materiel we have expended in this war.”
All of these are well known, Maddow said. But beyond that, the U.K. incident “raises this very uncomfortable question for us Americans as to whether there’s an additional cost of this war, which might be an additional risk for us here at home of potential retaliatory violence against us by Iran or its proxies or its sympathizers.”
Unfortunately, Maddow said, the U.S. could have a hard time dealing with these threats, because Trump’s administration just reassigned Michael Burgwald and Courtland Rae, two of the most important FBI officials investigating terror threats from the Middle East.
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