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![Empty Schoolyard](https://thewilmingtonstandard.com/images/daily_update/2026/june/june04/jun042026-article.png)

Congratulations to four members of the GOP. You may have just prolonged the war with Iran.

This is the Wilmington Standard Daily Update for Thursday, June 4 2026.

Yesterday, the United States House of Representatives [passed a resolution](https://nypost.com/2026/06/03/us-news/house-defies-trump-admin-and-approves-war-powers-resolution-to-halt-military-action-against-iran/) directing President Trump to withdraw all military forces from around Iran, stop all hostilities, and require Congressional authorization to move forward. Republican Congressmen Thomas Massie, Brian Fitzpatrick, Tom Barrett and Warren Davidson joined every Democrat to pass the resolution. David Rouzer – who represents East Carolina’s Seventh District - voted against it.

President Trump will almost certainly veto the resolution – and there are neither the numbers nor the desire in the House to override it. But more than anything else, this action demonstrates that many members of Congress – and the people they represent for that matter – have no idea how policies work in the Middle East. And we just blew it.

When dealing with Iran, Iraq, the UAE, or any other country in that region you care to name, we must remember that it is school yard politics that rules the day. School yard politics – where the biggest and baddest bully on the yard determines the rules. Until he is overthrown either by a united force or by another even bigger or badder bully, the school yard does well to remember who is in charge.

We have talked elsewhere about how this conflict with Iran is [a just war](https://thewilmingtonstandard.com/sam-ibraham/is-the-iran-conflict-a-just-war) in every aspect. Iranian leadership is thoroughly evil and needs to go. President Trump recognizes this fact, and up until now has been able to play the global political game knowing that the if we want lasting peace in the region, the United States needs to be the bigger bully. Not necessarily badder – but bigger – and ready to come down on Iran like the wrath of God if they do not play by our rules.

Up until now that is.

Because of this fracture in the governing party of the GOP, Iran will continue to delay and press for more of their own demands. It is a strategy that has worked for them since 1979 – and they know how to play that game well – because Iran continues to insist that they are the strongman in playground of the Middle East – and it is they who determine what everyone else will do.

Democrats – and four Republicans – just let them.

For the Wilmington Standard, I’m Reuel Sample. Thanks for listening.