God--Help Us?
Iran poses no threat to anyone. Not to Israel, to no one in the Middle East, nor least of all, the U.S.
There’s already an abundance of clues that Trump is unstable. His massive military buildup in preparation for an all out attack on Iran, demonstrates an order of lunacy that surpasses even the deranged Bush/Cheney invasion of Iraq in 2003.
Hardly anyone--apart from Israel and the U.S., the two foremost lunatic regimes on earth--wants this war. The Pentagon doesn’t want it, China and Russia don’t want it, and the American people don’t want it. Europe may not want it, but they’ve become so neutered and subservient that they hardly dare speak out against the U.S., not even for the sake and safety of their own people.
Meanwhile, Americans, for the most part, fed a steady diet of fast food, crispy cheese snacks, and corn syrup-laced soft drinks, have grown soft and pudgy. Most are weary of our forever wars, most have finally accepted the reality that neither of our political parties has anything worth a flying shit to offer them. Most have resigned themselves to living in their cars, on the street, or, at best, in the swelling multitude of trailer parks, barely able to afford rent or health care, or put food on the table; and if sending their kids to college was ever an aspiration, that pleasant dream long ago dimmed out.
What Americans mostly seem to want now is just to be left to enjoy their various and sundry addictions, whatever it takes to escape reality: not just pills or booze, but their I-phones, mega-tv’s, video games, Netflix, and what has become the number one highest-rated reality show on the planet--the Epstein Saga.
Trump probably doesn’t want this war, either, but he, along with our Congress and a succession of presidents going back 50 years or more, have long been bought by the Israel Lobby. Which means that our foreign policy, along with our souls and our lives, apparently, are all in the hands of Israel--in this case--Benjamin (Bibi) Netanyahu.
In short, the “land of the free, home of the brave” is essentially a flabby, varicose veined old bull pulled around by the nose by a cohort of unhinged lunatics who have not the faintest regard for the planet or the inhabitants on it. If Bibi orders up genocide in Gaza, then we will furnish the money and all the high tech weapons he needs to get it done. And if he orders a full scale attack on a sovereign country, whether it’s Iraq in 2003 or Iran in 2026, then it will happen, come hell or high water.
As it happens, our government is chock full of loons more than willing to blow up the planet to please this gangster and the handmaidens who do his bidding.
Pete Hegseth, who has dropped the old outdated “Secretary Of Defense” moniker in favor of the more appropriate “Secretary Of War” title, is a fiend straight out of Dante’s Inferno--a raging, spitting, psychopath, who should be carted off and securely locked away from civilized people, assuming there’s any left. Our ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, is a fanatical Christian-Zionist who asserts that the book of Genesis entitles Israel to virtually all the territory in the Middle East, thus, I suppose, setting the stage for a holocaust that could far surpass the borders of tiny little Gaza with its puny hundred-thousand dead.
Then there’s Steve Witcoff and Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner. These two ardent Zionists, dressed up to look like diplomats, are what pass for “peace negotiators” in Iran.
God help us. Wait--do I really mean that?
Israel, along with God, I suppose, strongly encouraged our invasion of Iraq, citing Saddam Hussein’s alleged weapons of mass destruction, though our own weapons inspectors repeatedly told us--or tried to--that Saddam possessed no WMD’s, and therefore posed no threat to anyone. The resulting invasion lead to an occupation and war lasting some nine years, cost trillions of dollars, and left over a million dead, along with thousands of American, British, and other allied service people.
Now, the Israelis are at it again, and the old American bull, however reluctant, must obediently trundle along--there’s a good boy. That ring in the nose can be slightly painful if you put up too much resistance.
Problem is, Iran can fight back. And will. With devastating results. As in 2003, Britain has declared for a willing participant, thus putting herself on the target list. The real question is what will Russia do? Or China? Both are allies of Iran. China, having already lost an ally in Venezuela, will not stand by and watch another ally obliterated, especially not one from whom they import 1.4 million barrels of oil per day.
If Trump goes ahead with his “shock and awe” misadventure, it will likely turn into shock and awe throughout the region and across the world. Iran has a robust stockpile of missiles, including hypersonics, that can reach Great Britain and the U.S. Doubtless their immediate concern will be our naval armada standing by in the Persian Gulf. I would not want to be a sailor on one of those floating coffins.
The Iranians will also rain down death on Tel Aviv, may even destroy the country entirely.
At any rate, once begun, the likely result will be escalation upon escalation until someone--Israel or us, but it’s anyone’s guess--decides to let the nukes fly.
In which case, there will be no winners.
Let's say goodbye with a smile, dear Just for a while dear we must part Don't let this parting upset you I'll not forget you, sweetheart We'll meet again Don't know where Don't know when But I know we'll meet again some sunny day (Song by Vera Lynn (1939), used at the end of Stanley Kubrick's film Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb)
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