Is the Biden administration preparing for the wrong kind of war with Iran?

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : Not only would this destabilize the normal functioning of our society, but it would also constrain the freedom of action that the U.S. government needs to prevent a broader war in the Middle East.
50% : "The memo specifically mentions Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and Hezbollah, all of whom are backed by Iran, a decades-long sponsor of terrorism, as acknowledged by the U.S. Department of State.
47% : Consistent with this asymmetric warfare doctrine, Iran has built an informal network of more than a dozen militant partners and proxies across the Middle East, including in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Yemen, Bahrain and the Palestinian territories.
46% : Dubbed the "Axis of Resistance," these groups are doing the fighting, using terrorist means, on behalf of Iran to achieve Tehran's strategic objective, which is to drive out the U.S. military from the region.
44% : And second, direct state-on-state combat is not Iran's way of war.
43% : First, Iran is not suicidal to take on the overwhelmingly superior U.S. military.
38% : REPORTThe threat from Iran - which was designated by the U.S. government as a state sponsor of terrorism in 1984 - has reached our country, as acknowledged Tuesday by FBI Director Christopher Wray during in a congressional hearing.
38% : The seriousness and credibility of the Iranian threat on the homeland is demonstrated by the fact that the U.S. government pays $2 million per month for the round-the-clock security provided to Pompeo and former President Trump's special envoy to Iran, Brian Hook.
37% : But it does nothing to counter the threat posed by Iran and its proxies here in America.
37% : Iran is unlikely to engage in a head-to-head kinetic confrontation with the United States.
32% : "Iran has been developing "surrogate networks inside the United States" for more than a decade in order to conduct proxy attacks on U.S. citizens, according to the 2023 Annual Threat Assessment issued in March by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
29% : In 2021, three men with ties to Iran, and to an Eastern European criminal organization, executed a plot to murder U.S. journalist Masih Alinejad in New York.
24% : And FBI Director Christopher Wray testified that Iran posed an "escalating threat to the homeland, having become more capable and more aggressive in their harmful and criminal activity.
21% : The report asserts that Iran likely has developed a "kill list" targeting law enforcement officials.

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