‘Contradictions here are endless’: Conservatives roasted to their face over Trump defenses

Political commentator Adam Mockler confronted two conservative writers on Saturday over their fierce defenses of President Donald Trump and his decision to launch a war against Iran, telling the two to their faces that their arguments were filled with “contradictions.”

CNN’s “Table For Five” saw conservative writers and commentators Noah Rothman and Brianna Lyman fiercely defend Trump’s decision to launch an attack on Iran. Lyman placed blame for the conflict on Iran, claiming that “we started a war because Iran started a war 47 years ago,” and that Trump was “finishing a war.”

Her 47-year figure references the 1979 Iranian Revolution, which saw Iranians overthrow the U.S.-backed Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. Pahlavi’s control over Iran was strengthened in the British and U.S.-backed 1953 coup, launched to protect Western oil interests in response to Iran nationalizing its oil industry.

Rothman, a writer for the conservative National Review, defended the Trump administration’s war against Iran by insisting that Iran’s ballistic missile capabilities, if not destroyed, would deny the United States the ability to “do another Midnight Hammer" – the U.S. military operation that targeted Iran’s nuclear facilities – in the future.

Mockler, also a contributor for the progressive media company MeidasTouch, immediately called both of them out over what he said were their blatant "contradictions."

“The contradictions here are endless,” Mockler said bluntly.

“So in one breath, this is a 47-year war, in the next breath, there was an imminent threat coming from Iran, and then in the next breath, 'oh, we were just trying to defang their nuclear capabilities,' and then one person will say we did defang the Iranian regime! Then Trump is now mobilizing thousands of more troops, so obviously this is going to continue.”