More dead Iranian civilians?

As the war against Iran escalates into its sixth week, the news at home and overseas just gets worse by the day as gas prices continue to soar, adversely affecting every aspect of our daily lives, since it takes, wait for it, gas/diesel to move everything to market.

Yet, what is the president talking about half the time? The huge ballroom he wants to erect at the White House after tearing down its historic East Wing last October without even bothering to run it by Congress.

Very strange. Almost reminds me of the people “tripping” back when I was in college in the mid-1970s.

“Wow, man, look at the lights.”

Another Wasted War

Another war based on another dire warning, reminiscent of 2003 when we went to war with Iraq – if we don’t take them out first, they will kill us all.

This gives credence to that old saying, the more things change, the more they stay the same.

Meaning, of course, another American war fought for spurious reasons – the other guy (country) has weapons of mass destruction, and if we don’t take them out now, they are going to upset the entire world. Kill us all with a “nuclear weapon,” even though our very own intelligence agencies were saying the exact opposite last year – there is no evidence that Iran is ramping up its nuclear capabilities.

At least the Jeffrey Epstein pedophile story is no longer taking up space on the news feed.

What was supposed to end in two or three weeks, or less, now shows no signs of slowing.

If Trump does go ahead with his threat made last week to bomb Iran back into the “stone age,” then almost the entire Arabian peninsula will cease to exist because without desalination plants, the desert becomes uninhabitable, which will knock out Kuwait, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar, and Oman, all of which depend on the ability to turn salt water into drinking (potable) water.

Iran’s president said this past weekend that if Iran’s infrastructure gets hit by the U.S., it will respond in kind. If those Arab countries allow the U.S. to launch military attacks from their home turf, they, too, become military targets, said the Iranian president.

When analysts say this is an existential threat for these countries, they are not being hyperbolic. If they don’t have water, who can live there? Oil is great, but you can’t drink it.

Conversely, Iran has access to significant natural water sources such as rivers, dams, and wells.

Now, the entire world’s economy has been thrown into chaos, wondering what is going to happen if the Strait of Hormuz remains closed to most of the world’s countries, but not all, e.g. China.

Major airlines have already said that flights will be cut due to the current cost of jet fuel. And rising.

Gas prices, food prices, shortage of pharmaceuticals, fertilizers and almost every commodity known to mankind is at risk. If anyone thinks that’s hyperbole, they have only been watching Fox.

War Without Provocation

We’re in yet another war without provocation. Everyday Americans suffer while those in the right business sectors, positions of power, grow richer.

Meanwhile, Department of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, buffed and ripped, taking selfies at the gym, just fired the most seasoned four-star general in the U.S. Army, right in the middle of a war we started, but carry on.

No worries, we have a Commander- in-Chief who knows what he’s doing, even though he never served a day in the military and got five Viet Nam draft deferments — the last one for “bone spurs” while the other four were “educational deferments,” much like that other master of disaster, Dick Cheney, who got four “student deferments.”

That “bone spur” diagnosis, by the way, was provided to the Draft Board by a New York podiatrist who rented office space from Trump’s dad, Fred, so clearly there was no quid pro quo at play.

Meanwhile, every day, more innocent Iranian civilians die as we carpet bomb the country, even while many Americans celebrated Easter this past Sunday, praising the “Prince of Peace.”

People say, “We must support our troops.”

Exactly. But really, the best way to support our combat troops in general, our sailors, is to get them out of this new forever war that never should have started because contrary to propaganda, Iran was never close to having a “nuke.”

Once again, our so-called leaders lied us into another war, even though poll numbers show that most Americans aren’t buying it this time around.

Fool us once, that sort of thing. Question is, why didn’t the president recognize that Iran is not Iraq, Afghanistan, or Venezuela?

Rather, it’s a country approximately 2.5 times the size of Texas with a population of approximately 90 million, mountainous terrain, with a standing army of approximately 1 million combat troops, a lot of missiles, drones, that will serve as a death trap if we’re stupid enough to put boots on the ground.

Let’s hope that the president really doesn’t bomb Iran back into the stone age this week, because if he does, there goes the entire Arab peninsula and any hope of returning to any semblance of normalcy.

It will make the Great Recession of 2008 look like a walk in the park.