Americans are paying four bucks a gallon at the pump, there’s an active war with Iran going on, and the Democratic Party just sent someone to Congress who won’t even call Iran an adversary. Welcome to the new Democrat majority, folks.
Adam Hamawy, newly elected to represent New Jersey in the U.S. House of Representatives, was born in Egypt, came to America as a baby, served in the U.S. Army as a physician, and by all accounts has a genuinely impressive resume. Good for him. Seriously. But now that he’s in Congress, he’s taking the curious position of refusing to label the Iranian regime, the same regime currently at war with the United States, as an adversary. That’s a choice.
Look, criticism of American foreign policy is as American as apple pie. Adam Hamawy Iran stance Nobody serious argues that every war this country has ever fought was perfectly justified, and there is plenty of room to debate the current conflict. That’s fine. That’s healthy. That’s democracy doing its thing.
But here’s where it gets simple: the Iranian regime is not a misunderstood government with a quirky PR problem. It survives by terrorizing its own citizens and runs one of the most brutal political systems in human history. This is not a controversial statement. This is just reading the news.
You can think American policy has flaws AND acknowledge that the Iranian government is unequivocally evil. These two ideas fit in the same brain at the same time without any trouble at all. Most Americans manage it every single day.
But the Democrats keep sending people to Washington who can’t quite bring themselves to say the obvious thing out loud. Gas is four dollars a gallon, Americans are at war with Iran, and their new guy in Congress is out here refusing to pick a side. The voters of New Jersey must be thrilled.
Hamawy will now serve in the House, where he’ll presumably be asked about Iran roughly every fifteen minutes. How he handles those questions will tell New Jersey voters everything they need to know about whose side their new representative is actually on. If he can’t call a hostile regime that’s actively at war with the United States an adversary, it’s going to be a very long term.
