Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) has chided his fellow Republican senators who are calling for the United States to attack Iran, arguing that those making such calls are “living in the past.”

The Ohio senator’s comments come after three U.S. service members were killed in the strike targeting a U.S. base in Jordan, injuring at least 40 others. Vance argued that Republican lawmakers who are calling for the U.S. to retaliate against Iran still believe that the U.S. has “the world’s most powerful manufacturing economy,” along with “a strong president.”

“These guys have got to wake up, Laura,” Vance said on Fox News’s The Ingraham Angle. “We have got to rebuild our country; we have got to go back to some common sense first principles. Instead, what these guys are doing is pretending in a world that just doesn’t exist anymore.

Among those calling for the U.S. to strike Iran are Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and John Cornyn (R-TX), with Cornyn calling for Tehran, the capital of Iran, to be targeted. The calls by the senators drew sharp criticism online, including from commentator Tucker Carlson, who called the two senators “f***ing lunatics.”

Outside of telling his fellow Republicans to stop viewing the U.S. from a past perspective, Vance also stated that it is time for the U.S. to elect a new president. Vance previously endorsed former President Donald Trump in January ahead of the 2024 election.

Vance’s comment on the U.S. not having a strong president comes after Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social that the attack was the result of President Joe Biden‘s “weakness and surrender.”

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The three U.S. service members who were killed in the drone attack have since been identified as Sgt. William Jerome Rivers, 46, of Carrollton, Georgia; Spc. Kennedy Ladon Sanders, 24, of Waycross, Georgia; and Spc. Breonna Alexsondria Moffett, 23, of Savannah, Georgia.

Biden was asked if he had decided on a response to the drone attack, to which he responded that he did not believe “we need a wider war in the Middle East,” adding that it was “not what I’m looking for.”