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A small subset of the U.S. population favors the U.S. military against Iran to thwart the development of nuclear weapons, but one combat veteran expresses a view he believes is more representative of the men and women who wear the uniform.<\/p>\n

According to a recent Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey, 57 percent<\/a> of participants favor U.S. military action against Iran\u2019s growing nuclear weapons program. Of the survey\u2019s 1,107 participants, 28 percent said they would \u201cStrongly Support\u201d military action, while 17 percent would \u201cStrongly Oppose.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cUltimately, I think all of us, service members and veterans included, want to see anything but war,\u201d Army Lt. Col. (Ret.)\u00a0Darin Gaub<\/a> told The Gateway Pundit. The former UH-60 Blackhawk pilot and Afghanistan war veteran said, \u201cMilitary action should not be our most favorable action to solving any problem globally.\u201d<\/p>\n

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So, why is U.S. military action the knee-jerk response? Gaub explained on X, saying, \u201cBecause it\u2019s the most well-funded department within the U.S. government, we almost always default to using the military rather than other elements of national power.\u201d<\/p>\n

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For him, there are other options outside of the U.S. military to be considered first. \u201cWhile there are many who are quickly ready to go to war, they don\u2019t understand what war and conflict really are because they\u2019ve never experienced it,\u201d he shared. \u201cWithin the veteran community, especially the combat veteran community, we want to make sure everything else is exercised first.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rather than becoming involved in taking military action, Gaub suggested President Donald Trump remain steadfast in a \u201cmaximum pressure campaign, [placing] crushing sanctions on the regime.\u201d Furthermore, he argued, \u201cthese sanctions should reach their downstream partners, Russia and China.\u201d<\/p>\n

As stated in his book Veritas Vincit: A Soldier\u2019s Perspective on Truth, Faith, Family, and Freedom<\/em>, which is scheduled for release on June 15 on Amazon, Google Books, and Apple Books, Gaub has long recognized \u201cthe Middle East peace process would break down, and Iran would be the region\u2019s primary instigator of instability and conflict, backed by Russia and China.\u201d The two countries are \u201calmost solely responsible for supporting Iran and keeping them alive,\u201d he told TGP.<\/p>\n

For Gaub, economic sanctions are only the starting point for a peaceful resolution. The United States also needs to get creative about \u201csupporting the Iranian people over their rulers and their dictators,\u201d he offered. \u201cThese people need to take on the desire to pursue their own freedom again, and the best way for that to happen is for their people to take their country back and not turn it into a war zone.\u201d<\/p>\n

Before moving toward military action, Gaub said, \u201cLet\u2019s use all those other elements of power, like economic sanctions and diplomacy.\u201d But when those efforts are exhausted, he admitted, \u201cit would then become time for that harder conversation.\u201d And should that day come, Gaub still questions whether the United States should be the country \u201ctackling the problem.\u201d<\/p>\n

In his opinion, Israel should lead this effort with the support of European allies. \u201cThey have better intelligence and better capabilities of proximity than we do,\u201d he explained. \u201cWe can support their effort to eliminate the problem, but we don\u2019t need to be the world\u2019s police.\u201d<\/p>\n

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