For Trump and Vance, Iran isn't a forever war

President Donald Trump and JD Vance spent years promising that the era of American “forever wars” was over. Seven months after the United States and Israel launched military operations against Iran, the administration has found a unique way to keep that promise: Don’t call it a war.

“I wouldn’t call it a war,” Vance told reporters at a White House briefing earlier this month. “Right now, there is no active shooting.”