William Saletan says that Mike Pompeo is lying about the lethal drone strike on Gen. Qassem Soleimani. Of course he's lying. That's in his job description.
Fred Kaplan suggests that the problem with finding a diplomatic solution to the situation with Iran is that no one around Trump wants that, perhaps because none of them has any idea how to do that.
Daniel Larison believes that "Congress must vote to cut off all funding for a war with Iran." They won't but they should.
Lastly: I don't usually find anything I think is linkworthy on Reason, the prominent Libertarian site, but you might want to read Matt Welch. He says, "The truth, which literally hurts, is that every administration lies about war, particularly (though not only) about its reasons for initiating deadly force." I think he may overstate his case a bit…but only a bit.