Afghanistan, Oct. 11 -- U.S. Senator Chris Murphy has criticized a recent American military strike on a commercial cargo ship in the Gulf of Oman, calling the operation a "disaster" and questioning its cost to American taxpayers.
Murphy, a Democratic senator from Connecticut, wrote on X that the United States appeared to be using attacks on commercial vessels to restore conditions that existed before the war with Iran. He questioned why American taxpayers were spending billions of dollars on operations targeting commercial shipping.
"It seems the goal is to gain leverage to convince the Iranians to let us pay them billions to return everything to the way it all was before the war. What a disaster," Murphy wrote.
The criticism followed an...