President Donald Trump, whose fierce denunciation of military adventurism abroad fuelled his unlikely rise to the top of the Republican Party, risks becoming ensnared by that very type of conflict. The US and Israeli attack on Iran Saturday cemented Trump's decade-long transformation from a candidate who in 2016 called the Iraq War a "big, fat mistake" to a president warning Americans to prepare for potential casualties overseas and encouraging Iranians to "seize control of your destiny." The strikes were also at odds with Trump's warnings during the 2024 campaign that his Democratic rival, Kamala Harris, was surrounded by "war hawks" eager to send troops overseas. Trump justified the action as necessary to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons or developing missiles capable of reaching the US, less than a year after he said airstrikes "obliterated" their capability. US intelligence has also said Iran's weapons capability was substantially degraded. For Trump, memories of the