'The answer is no!' CNN pundits clash over Trump's handling of global conflict

A pair of CNN pundits faced off on the possibility that president Donald Trump will order U.S. military strikes on Iran.

President Donald Trump is reportedly warming up to the idea of joining Israel's military campaign against its Middle East adversary, and conservative commentator Shermichael Singleton argued that MAGA opposition to U.S. involvement was healthy for the Republican Party.

"I think it's a healthy divide when you think about everything we learned from our previous incursion in the Middle East – Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, thousands of U.S. troops killed, thousands more wounded," Singleton said. "I believe $1.4 [trillion] $1.6 trillion of American taxpayer money spent, and what was the net result? That the Middle East is far worse than it than it is, I would argue today. Look at the Taliban back in control of Afghanistan, Syria is a complete mess."

However, he argued in favor of indirect support for Israel's campaign, but he conceded that anything more substantial could put U.S. service members at risk in the region.

"I agree with the president that we should support Israel as our ally with indirect resources," Singleton said. "We can do that, control the airspace, allow Israel to continue to take military strategic military attacks against their military installations in Iran, but the question becomes, should the U.S. directly involve itself, and if we do, and Iran decides to respond by attacking some of the bases in the region, killing American troops, we will have no choice at that point, but to involve ourselves way more than I think the average American would prefer."

Bakari Sellers, a former Democratic state legislator from South Carolina, agreed the U.S. must support its ally, but he argued that Trump had emboldened Iran by withdrawing from the 2015 nuclear agreement reached with Barack Obama's administration.

"When you're talking about Iran getting closer to a nuclear weapon, that should terrify us all," Sellers said. "But the fact is, we had an agreement in place in 2015 and Iran was in compliance with that agreement, and they were further away from nuclear capabilities than they are today. Bibi Netanyahu and [Mohammed bin Salman] convinced Donald Trump, it was an easy mode to convince him, to pull out of the nuclear agreement, and when he did that, Iran is now moving further and further towards a nuclear weapon – that's a fact."

"By pulling out of the Iran nuclear agreement, we're here now where you have to make a decision about where are we going to put U.S. military boots on the ground," Sellers added. "The answer to that is no. Since Donald Trump has gotten elected, the Middle East is on fire, as we have images on the split screen. Now the Ukrainian-Russian war has gotten further out of hand, and these were things that he was going to solve on Day One, but have become more and more complicated in his leadership. We had an opportunity to have a diplomatic resolution to this, but Bibi Netanyahu, MBS and Donald Trump made the decision that was not in American interest to pull out of the Iran nuclear agreement, and here we are."

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