1. United States
2. Kan.
3. Letter

I am one of your constituents, and I am furious. The Trump administration launched military strikes against Iran without making any prior arrangement to protect or evacuate the thousands of American citizens living and traveling in the Middle East. People are stranded. They were given no warning, no safe passage, and no plan. This is not the fog of war — this is the direct, foreseeable consequence of a decision this administration made with full knowledge of the risks, and chose to act on anyway without doing the bare minimum to protect American lives first. Let me be direct about the politics here, because I expect you to be as well. For years, Republican members of Congress — many of whom supported this administration's escalation toward Iran — loudly and relentlessly blamed President Biden for the chaotic Afghanistan withdrawal. They held hearings. They demanded accountability. They called it a moral failure and a dereliction of duty to leave Americans behind. They were right to say so. But if that standard meant anything at all, it applies here with equal force. This administration chose to start this conflict. It had intelligence. It had time. It had every resource of the United States government at its disposal. And it sent bombs before it sent a single evacuation flight. The Americans now stranded abroad are not collateral damage from an unpredictable enemy — they are the collateral damage of this administration's own planning failures. That is not a foreign policy setback. That is a scandal. I am asking you — demanding, as your constituent — to do three things: 1. Use your office immediately and publicly to demand that the administration produce and execute a concrete, resourced plan to locate, protect, and evacuate American citizens currently stranded in the region. Not a statement. Not a briefing. A plan with a timeline. 2. Call for a congressional investigation into why no citizen protection framework was in place before military action began, who made that call, and what it will take to ensure this never happens again. 3. Say so publicly. Go on the record. If you believed the Afghanistan withdrawal was a failure of presidential accountability, then say plainly that the same standard applies here. Your constituents are watching to see whether your principles are real or merely partisan. Silence from you on this is not neutrality. It is a choice. Americans are stranded in a war zone their own government created without a plan to bring them home. I expect you to treat that with the same urgency you would demand of any other administration. I look forward to your response — and I will be paying close attention to your actions.