Pence says US halted Iran war too soon, disputes Vance on midterm losses

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Former US Vice President Mike Pence said Sunday that Washington's decision to halt its military campaign against Iran contributed to Republican midterm losses, rejecting Vice…

Former US Vice President Mike Pence said Sunday that Washington's decision to halt its military campaign against Iran contributed to Republican midterm losses, rejecting Vice President JD Vance's argument that the war itself had cost the party votes.

"Vice President Vance is wrong," Pence said on NBC's Meet the Press, arguing that the US military had achieved major successes during Operation Epic Fury before the administration abruptly stopped the campaign after five weeks. He cited the destruction of Iran's navy, American air superiority and strikes on 15,000 military sites.

Pence accused the Trump administration of embracing the "politics of appeasement" after suspending the attacks. He pointed to reported Iranian strikes against US targets in Bahrain over the past 24 hours as evidence that Tehran did not consider itself defeated, despite the damage inflicted by American forces.

"There's an old saying that you don't make peace with your enemy, you make peace with your defeated enemy,” he said.

Vance said Americans were frustrated by rising gasoline and diesel prices and Washington's failure to finish the military campaign, rather than the initial decision to attack Iran. Pence suggested that growing isolationist influence within the Republican Party had contributed to the administration's decision to halt the offensive.

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