What’s Next? The Dog Ate My Homework?
Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart
What we don’t know about Trump’s war on Iran.
It’s a war. No, it’s not a war. We won, and the war is over.
The war will be over soon. The Strait of Hormuz is fully open. The Strait of
Hormuz is closed again. I will not extend the ceasefire. The ceasefire has been
extended by 10 days. The TACO man is at it again. He has no idea what he is
doing.
WE, THE PEOPLE, DESERVE BETTER
I have lived through 14 presidents and watched their actions
with feelings of hope and trust. I don’t remember Truman; I was born in 1946.
However, I watched some of Dwight Eisenhower’s second nomination at the Republican
National Convention in 1956, and my interest in politics began.
My opinion about most of our presidents can be summed up
with one word: adequate. Only one of them can be called “great.” Sadly, I
consider three of them to be the worst in American history, and Nixon is not
one of them. I rate presidents solely on their accomplishments for all
Americans and their successes or failures to perform the job for which they
were elected.
In past articles, I previously listed the qualities and failures
of all 14. I’m sure you know that the very worst of all time is Donald John
Trump.
HE TRIES HARDER TO BE THE MOST HATED MAN IN THE WORLD
To sum up my evaluation of Trump is easy. He has failed to
accomplish a single positive action for all 340 million people. Meanwhile he
continues to make the world a more dangerous place for all the world’s
population, while he destroys everything good about America, intentionally
harming anyone who is not pure white and wealthy.
I will not attempt to gaslight you. I will leave that to Trump
and the mainstream media. Trump’s only reason for waging a personal war against
Iran is to redirect the public’s attention from his close relationship with
Jeffrey Epstein.
He and our incompetent military leaders continue to murder
thousands of innocent men, women, and children for no other reason than
"they can." These traitors to my country are spending more than one
billion dollars each day since February 28, money which should have been used
to improve the lives of all Americans.
The truth is that there was no plan for waging another war
in the Middle East. Trump apparently woke up one morning and decided to place
our nation in another unwinnable war. Washington insiders claim that after our
military leaders met with Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, they agreed
to join him in his war against Iran. When they asked Trump, who was not
present, he said, “sounds good to me.”
I cannot ignore the fact that our military’s actions in Iran
are on a path to become another failure. The old men and a few women who
control our armed forces from the comfort of their huge offices inside the
Pentagon have lost every war in which they participated since WWII. Their only
purpose is to fight wars.
MOST OF YOU KNOW THAT I AM PROUD TO BE A PACIFIST. WHY AREN’T
YOU?
It is an undeniable fact that no one wins a war. The results
are always the same. Tens of thousands of innocent people die or are severely
wounded for life. Only the super-rich and politicians benefit from their
investments in the military industrial complex. Sadly, our nation’s leaders
failed to listen to President Eisenhower’s farewell address.
On January 17, 1961, President Eisenhower made his final speech
as our nation’s 34th President. It lasted just 10 minutes, (he was
no Donald Trump), but continues to have great implications in 2026.
The most critical section of his speech involves the growth
of the military industrial complex and its danger to future generations. The
prime architect of “D-Day” voiced his concerns about the path our nation
appeared to be choosing in the mid-twentieth century.
“America's leadership and prestige depend, not merely upon
our unmatched material progress, riches, and military strength, but on how we
use our power in the interests of world peace and human betterment.”
He went on to express his concern for the opposition of
democratic values and principles, focusing on the e “military-industrial
complex,” a name he uses for “the conjunction of an immense military
establishment and a large arms industry,” something new “in the American
experience.”
Acknowledging the need for a strong military, he spoke of
the need to be aware of the desire for greater power and influence over the
governance of America. It is in spite of
its sheer necessity, he admonishes us, that “we must guard against the
acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the
military-industrial complex.”
Mr. Eisenhower appears to have been America’s Nostradamus.
WAR MUST BE THE VERY LAST AND WORST CHOICE FOR THE LEADERS
OF ALL NATIONS
Only when all other avenues and efforts have been exhausted
to maintain the peace should the thought of entering into a war become part of the
conversation. Only if our nation is attacked or in danger of an imminent act of
war like Pearl Harbor or 9/11 should our leaders consider military conflict as
the last resort.
The problem lies is a quote which is all too true: “War is
good business.”
Trump’s war is unnecessary and an affront to peace-loving
people around the world. It is an abomination, adding to the long list of why
he should never have been allowed to wear the title of President of the United
States of America.
Op-ed by James Turnage
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Sources: Aljazeera.com: Iran war live: Israel attacks
intensify on Lebanon; ships seized in Hormuz
economist.com: A dangerous blind spot in Donald Trump’s Iran
war strategy
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