Tenney responded by comparing the war on Iran to other U.S. wars.
“Well, it’s not been very long,” she said. “We were in Iraq and Afghanistan for over 20 years under a couple of different presidents, so, uh, this is a very short-term conflict, and this is all about lasting peace. It’s not a forever war.”
“It’s time for them to go, and it’s time to have peace and prosperity,” she said.
Tenney probably hoped people would ignore the fact that she didn’t actually answer the question. But that didn’t happen on social media, where many critics ridiculed the idea that shorter wars were somehow better than longer conflicts:
Some tagged Tenney to remind her that she didn’t provide a direct answer to the question.
She responded to one person who asked her to answer the question about how the war in Iran jibes with Trump’s “no new wars” promise, but she still wouldn’t answer: