This is what happens when people who are not well-versed in history elect right-wing authoritarian-messianic types who promise greater public safety, less taxes, and lower prices, and all they deliver are economic mayhem, division, persecution, and international chaos.
Early this morning, United States and Israeli forces, in an operation called Epic Fury, bombed Iran under the immediate justification that Iran posed an “imminent threat” by rebuilding its nuclear program and was days away from building a nuclear weapon.
Hold on a minute.
Just months ago, Trump and his Israelis sidekick or puppet master, depending on one’s point of view, Benjamin Netanyahu, said they had obliterated Iran’s nuclear program with bunker-busting bombs.
Which is it?
In his early morning remarks on Truth Social to the nation, while everyone was sleeping, Donald Trump also called for the overthrow of the Iranian Government, saying they were “a vicious group of very hard, terrible people.”
That part is true.
The current Iranian sectarian government of Ayatollah theocrats has been a force of destruction and repression on its people and terrorist activities on other regional nations for decades.
Recently, they viciously put down internal protests against their regime, killing thousands according to news reports.
Iran has responded to the United States and Israellis bombings by launching retaliatory strikes against Israel and neighboring Arab states with no apparent serious damage.
The world would be a better place if the current Iranian leadership were gone and replaced by Democratic and Republic favoring elements.
But people have seen this movie before.
The above sentence was also said about Iraq over 20 years ago, and if taking out regimes that repressed their people were justifications for change, then the United States allies, Saudi Arabia and Egypt, should be on that list too. So should Israel, with its horrific intensification of settler violence against Palestinians in the West Bank and repression of the people in Gaza.
Remember, the United States and a more extensive group of allies in 2003 attacked terrorist and repressive Iraq under the now disproven rationale that Iraq was on the brink of producing nuclear weapons and that the Iraqi people would treat the Americans and other international troops as liberators.
Look how well that turned out in Iraq and in Afghanistan, where American blood and treasure were wasted because of poor planning and a half-ass commitment to get the economic and political reconstruction of those two countries done.
It appears the United States and Israel are about to travel on that road again. The power vacuum, if not managed right this time, will lead to regional instability and terrorist reprisals by displaced Iranian elements, which will be reminiscent of or worse of what happened in Iraq shortly after the American occupation, and that resulted in the rise of ISIS/ISIL.
Arizona Senator and Iraq Military Veteran Ruben Gallego issued an immediate response to Trump’s decision to bomb Iran with two social media posts.
In the first, he wrote:
“I lost friends in Iraq to an illegal war. Young working-class kids should not pay the ultimate price for regime change and a war that hasn’t been explained or justified to the American people. We can support the democracy movement and the Iranian people without sending our troops to die.”
In the second, he posted:
Yesterday, in possible anticipation of where Trump was headed, Senator Gallego wrote:
“The Iranian people deserve freedom and dignity. But we cannot send our men and women to die at the whim of the President. The regime’s actions shouldn’t become an excuse for a wider war that punishes civilians and puts our troops at risk.”
People who know how poorly Mr. Trump has managed the United States in his now over five years in office probably know where this road leads in the latest Middle East conflict. Unless there is a sudden surge in competence, historical literacy, and expertise, this is probably, based on history, not going to end well in the long term.
Remember that we probably would not even be here if Trump, with the prodding of Netanyahu, had not torn up the Obama negogaited Iran nuclear agreement.
Those prices at that gas pump that may be about to go up because of today’s bombings.
Donald Trump did that.
God save the United States and the people entrusted to protect it.
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Just release the f’n Epstein files so we can be done with this trash person.