What is true is that the United States is going to war WITH Israel, not FOR it

Among the few non-deranged leftists at the New York Times is Bret Stephens, who writes such columns as: For Once, We Fight With an Equal Ally —

For most of the postwar era, the United States has gone to war with partners whose military contributions ranged from moderately helpful to mainly symbolic. Britain in Afghanistan and Iraq comes to mind in the first case. Germany in the 1999 Kosovo war comes to mind in the second.

The war against Iran is different.

 … This may be the first time since the Second World War that Washington has had an equal partner with which to share the burdens of war

 … In the case of Iran, the idea that crippling its capacity to threaten its neighbors is some sort of purely Israeli interest is belied by every Iranian missile or drone that falls on Dubai, Doha, Manama or Riyadh, not to mention U.S. and NATO military bases in the region. 

 … What is true is that the United States is going to war with Israel, not for it. That’s something many Americans, MAGA-type conservatives most of all, often claim to want: an ally that pulls its weight, shares the risk and contributes meaningfully to victory.

 … Since when, one wonders, has the Pentagon or the C.I.A. had such help from our resourceful friends in, say, Paris?

By all means, read the NYT's Bret Stephens columns regularly, such as The War Is Going Better Than You Think and Trump and Netanyahu Are Doing the Free World a Favor.

President Trump is being criticized from many quarters for his decision to join Israel in a war to topple the Iranian regime … The reasons vary.

 … But one country where the United States and Israel are garnering broad support is the same country that’s being bombed.

“Everyone is joyful; it is one of the best days of probably 95 percent of Iranians’ lives,” one Iranian resident of the city of Karaj told The Wall Street Journal about [Ayatollah Ali] Khamenei’s death. “We bolted outside and shouted from the top of our lungs and laughed and danced with our neighbors,” a woman in Tehran named Sara told The Times. 

 … Iran does not exist in a geopolitical vacuum: With Moscow and Beijing, it is a core member of the axis of autocracies that threaten the democratic world broadly. … If Tehran falls out of the axis, our remaining adversaries can only be weaker.

 … the United States and Israel have taken considerable military and political risks to do the right thing. And that’s no small thing.

They have rid the world of an odious tyrant, and of several layers of his equally odious deputies. It’s odd that the same people who fault Trump for divorcing U.S. foreign policy from its democratic values now fault him for going to war for the sake of advancing democratic values.