After Iran Bombing Fiasco, Trump Could Start a New Golf Course in Iran

Now that we see that the multimillion-dollar bombing raid on Iran was a colossal failure, it appears that Trump could be building a new golf club in Natanz. After all, the first three holes have been dug.

There has been much well-deserved admiration for our sons and daughters in the US military for what they were able to do in the June 22 attack , both intellectually and physically.

However, the dinky “bunker buster” bombs are effective only to 200 feet deep. The Iranian nuclear facility is half a mile underground. Trump lied preposterously that the US attacks “obliterated” Iran’s nuclear capabilities. Yes, the attack did cause some damage to the Natanz entry roads and created some holes in the ground.

Trump callously equated the Iran bombing to the US bombing of Hiroshima in 1945. This is a hideous comparison. Approximately 70,000 people were killed instantly by the Hiroshima explosion and the intense heat, and 200,000 more people died in the following months from radiation sickness, burns, and injuries. 

The math also shows that Trump is lying. The Hiroshima bomb was a 15-kiloton nuclear device. The 30,000-pound bombs used in Iran were only .15 kilotons each, or 1/100th of the Hiroshima bomb. There is no rational relationship between Trump’s atrocious remarks and reality.

Trump said the attack set Iran back “decades.” However, Iran is already positioned to resume creating an atomic bomb. “Iran could start producing enriched uranium again in a matter of months,” according to Rafael Grossi, the head of the UN’s nuclear watchdog, adding there is no military solution to stop Iran from building a nuclear weapon.”

The mission planners were abject failures. Trump put America’s brave and loyal pilots, sailors and soldiers in danger in a screwball attack against Iran, one of the most dangerous countries in the world.

But in Trump’s imagination, it’s the start of a new golf course.

Where’s the video of the air strikes?

Trump released a video of B-2 bombers taking off and landing, showing the bomber’s ability to get into the air and back. But there is no video of the actual bombing.

“Where’s the video of the airstrikes?” asked political reporter Taegan Goddard, the founder of Political Wire. “Skepticism about official war narratives has become a bipartisan instinct in Washington. That makes the absence of any publicly released footage from Saturday’s bombing raid on Iran all the more conspicuous.”

All the major news organizations have formally requested strike footage, but none has been provided. “It raises a critical question: If the mission was as successful as Trump insists, why can’t the American public see it for themselves?“

“The United States obtained intercepted communication between senior Iranian officials discussing this month’s military strikes on Iran’s nuclear program and remarking that the attack was less devastating than they had expected,” the Washington Post reports.

Sure, there’s some dirt on the entry roads to the Natanz Facility. However, Iran could have moved its enriched uranium with just “three or four trucks,” according to Joseph Cirincione, a nuclear nonproliferation expert and former vice chair of the Center for International Policy.

United Nations inspectors also believe Iran was likely able to move the uranium out of harm’s way.

What did the raid cost?

On June 22, Trump sent seven B-2 stealth bombers, each valued at approximately $2.1 Billion, and dropped at least 14 bunker-buster bombs worth millions on Fordow and Natanz. In total, more than 125 US aircraft participated in the mission, including bombers, fighters, tankers, surveillance aircraft, and support crews, all costing hundreds of millions of dollars to deploy and operate.

The US spends more on its military than any other country in the world, more than the next nine countries combined, spending about three times more than China and nearly seven times more than Russia. In 2024, the US spent $997 Billion on military defense.

What’s the result?

Since 2001, US-led wars directly caused the deaths of about 940,000 people across Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, and other post-9/11 conflict zones, according to Brown University’s Watson Institute of International & Public Affairs. The math works out to the US spending $1 million per person to kill them.

What is the matter with our country? Doesn’t anyone remember the pointless Vietnam War that lasted from 1965 to 1973? Don’t people remember George W. Bush lying about “weapons of mass destruction” that didn’t exist in the 2003 invasion of Iraq? When will Americans realize they’re being lied to?

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it,” said George Santayana.