To the editor:

Forty-seven Republican senators have the same as guaranteed another war in the Middle East. They have knifed in the back the efforts of our president and the countries of Great Britain, France, Germany, Russia and China to bring about an agreement that would keep Iran from gaining a nuclear weapons capability. Now the Jewish state will decide that its only hope is to strike before Iran completes its rush to acquire nuclear weapons. Iran understands this and will give all possible speed to acquire the nuclear weapons to counter the Jewish states known nuclear capability.

The hard-liners in Iran have won their case with the help of 47 of our Republican senators. When it happens, I propose that if the U.S. becomes involved on the ground and backs up the invasion of Iran, that those same 47 Republican senators be at the front line of any troops we send there. It is a dark day for all Republicans when 47 of their senators opt for a possibly avoidable nuclear war. This is truly the most irresponsible thing ever to have been done in this century — including the Bush administration’s rush to war in Iraq which began this whole mess including ISIS.