The solemnity of Dover Air Force Base has long served as the nation’s most somber stage, a place where the theoretical costs of foreign policy are transformed into the devastatingly tangible reality of flag-draped caskets. Recently, President Donald Trump stood on that hallowed ground to oversee the dignified transfer of six American service members, lives claimed by the rapidly intensifying conflict with Iran. In the wake of this ceremony, the President revealed a poignant and uniform request from the grieving families—a message that is now resonating through the halls of power and across a fractured national landscape. The current hostilities…
