Srinagar, June 23 -- President Donald Trump may insist, loudly and triumphantly, that this is not a war. But make no mistake: when American stealth bombers drop bunker-busting ordnance on a sovereign nation's nuclear sites, itiswar. And it is illegal under international law.

The parallels with America's invasion of Iraq in 2003 are too glaring to ignore. Then, as now, the US claimed to be acting on ironclad evidence of weapons of mass destruction, the claims that later proved hollow and politically manipulated. Now, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has built his political career on stoking fear of an imminent Iranian nuclear bomb, found in Trump a pliable ally ready to unleash American firepower on an unproven threat. The ...