Originally published at The Crux
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The United States is heading down a road that will be difficult to reverse, according to Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago.
On Feb. 28, the United States and Israel launched coordinated strikes on several sites in Iran. More than 1,000 Iranians have been killed so far in the conflict, along with at least 20 members of the U.S. and Israeli militaries.
Iranian state television said the country’s leaders are calling for the “shedding of blood” from Israelis and U.S. President Donald Trump.
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U.S. Secretary of Defense Peter Hegseth said additional forces will soon arrive in the Middle East and that the United States “will take all the time we need to make sure that we succeed.”
Cupich told Vatican News that when the United States begins to take a military approach to disputes, “we are going down a road that’s very hard to come back from.”
“We see that more and more in this particular moment. So, I think people are afraid. They have no idea how this is going to end, and things can get out
