TheWiseOldFart

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Trump’s war is an abomination and a stain on our entire federal government. It proves, once and for all that we, the people, are far down the list of priorities within our federal government. In a unilateral decision, Trump attacked the sovereign nation of Iran on February 28, 2026. Our country was not under attack. There was no evidence that an attack in the future was probable. However, in another thinly veiled effort to misdirect the public’s attention to his extremely close relationship with pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, he, alone, ordered an unwarranted attack on Iran. Currently, the orange buffoon has wasted more than 75 billion dollars of taxpayer money. Our relationship with Iran and all Muslim nations is far worse than when he began his attacks. AMERICAN SAILORS WERE “COLLATERAL DAMAGE” The USS Lincoln is an aircraft carrier. It was deployed Iran on February 26, just two days before Trump began his war. In July, reports of fatigue, hunger, and a situation ...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart I want to hear from the woman who vandalized the WWII Monument. I have an opinion, based on the actions of the worst president in history, and our military leaders sitting on their humongous behinds inside the safe confines of the Pentagon. It is an irrefutable fact that Trump is a fascist dictator, unworthy of the title of President of the United States. If the Pentagon had refused to obey his orders, orders which clearly violate the Constitution and are diametrically opposed to the principles of our Founding Fathers, they would be obeying the Law of the Land and displaying the courage demonstrated by every “grunt” who bravely fought to defend those principles in WWII. WHAT THE F**K HAPPENDED TO THE LEADERS OF OUR FORMERLY RESPECTED AND REVERED MILITARY FORCES? When thinking about WWII, pictures develop in our mind of Adolf Hitler, D-Day, and the frightening explosions over the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, among many others. The most important fact was tha...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Like its incompetent Commander-in-Chief, the Pentagon can’t do anything right. Our military brass lost wars in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan, and now it has clearly lost Trump’s war in Iran. According to sources inside the Pentagon, they have used almost every long-range missile in their arsenal. Trump’s folly has cost taxpayers about 70 billion dollars and on this day, August 8, 2026, the situation is back where it started, although it appears that Iran has a distinct advantage in deciding how it might end: someday. HOW A DRAFT DODGER BEGAN A WAR AND GOT HIS FAT ASS KICKED No American citizen wanted another war in the Middle East. History proves that an attack on Muslim nations is unwinnable. However, Trump was desperate to find a distraction from his association with best friend and pedophile, Jeffrey Epstein, and the fat, old men in the Pentagon wanted a chance to play with their overpriced toys. Since February 28, Trump and his boys in uniform have w...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart No citizen of any nation wants their country to be engaged in a war. However, in America, our illegitimate president began a war with Iran on February 28 th . We should have been prepared. During the 2016, campaign, Trump told his ignorant cult, “I love war, even the nuclear kind.” Trump has never studied history, and therefore never learned from the mistakes of our past. Since WWII our government and the Pentagon have lost four wars: Iran will make it five. FACTS: OUR MILIIARY IS FIVE TIMES LARGER THAN ALL OTHER NATONS COMBINED, AND FIVE TIMES MORE EXPENSIVE For decades, watchdog groups claim that 50 cents of every dollar received by the Pentagon goes to waste. However, our corrupt legislature votes to increase the military budget every year. 10 years ago,, the Pentagon received 585.3 billion dollars. Trump is asking Congress to approve a 2027 budget of 1.15 trillion dollars. We are not getting what we paid for. Our military leaders have become entirely politic...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart What do you get when you put together a mentally challenged, obese, old man, his criminal protégé, and a group of toy soldiers? Another lost war in the Middle East. There’s a lesson in this story for all the uninformed men and women who continue to support the worst man in the world, Donald John Trump. What is happening to our country today is the result of choosing a wealthy, wannabe playboy to lead the most diverse and complicated nation in the world. I could have titled this story, “The Fat Man, his Brother from Another Mother, and Their Toy Soldiers.” Whatever Trump claims he is accomplishing by unilaterally choosing to wage a deadly war against Iran is a lie. The truth: Trump is the biggest loser in America’s history. He has failed at everything he attempted to accomplish. With Pete “Dumbass” Hegseth carrying out his orders, and our incompetent military brass in the Pentagon, America has lost its fifth war since WWII, and its third in the Middle East. Not o...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Fact: the citizens of every nation in the world have never declared war against any other country. Governments are responsible for every war in history, and governments force their nation’s people to fight their battles. Our military leaders in the Pentagon and our government love our soldiers until they come home. When they have been seriously wounded, physically or mentally, they and their families become a nuisance. WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT I’m sure you have seen the commercials for an organization called the Wounded oWarrior Project. It is admirable to care for the men and women who fought for our country and arrive home with serious physical and/or mental disabilities. My question is, “why does it exist?” It seems logical to me that the men and women who choose to engage in wars have a responsibility to care for anyone they sent into harm’s way. PENTAGON’S FINANCIAL FAILURES The Pentagon budget for 2027 is expected to surpass one trillion dollars. This is m...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart When we look at who we were fighting, it’s hard to believe that the biggest and most expensive military in the world lost its fifth war since the end of WWII. For Trump and Hegseth, it’s their first: so far. “When I’m your president, there will be no more wars.” “There will be no peace with Iran until they abandon their efforts to develop nuclear weapons.” Just two of Trump’s hundreds of thousands of lies since 2015. FASCISM LOSES ANOTHER ONE Trump, Hegseth, and the Pentagon, by design are fascists. And like their heroes, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Emperor Hirohito, and Vladimir Putin, they lost a war intended to display their power and desire for world domination. For Trump, his war against Iran was intended to be a distraction from the investigation into pedophile Jeffrey Trump’s personal records. However, after three-and-one-half months, and a waste of between one and two hundred billion taxpayer dollars, there is no end. Only a two-month ceasefire has b...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Trump claimed his primary goals for his unilateral decision to invade Iran remain toppling Iran's government, better known as regime change, weakening Iran's military, security and nuclear capabilities and its regional influence, as well as supporting Israeli interests. Only one goal has been achieved: Trump gives his full support to his long lost twin, Benjamin Netanyahu, and the Israeli Army. For Trump, this is nothing less than another failure. For the American people, it is a costly error in judgment. Three-quarters of all Americans oppose any military action in the Middle East. TRUMP REMAINS A MAN DESPERATE FOR RELEVANCE AND A SINGLE SUCCESS IN A LIFE DOMINATED BY FAILURE Trump failed in the private sector for more than 40 years. Only by cheating on his taxes, and accepting assistance from Vladimir Putin and the Saudi Royal Family saved his business “empire.” His presidency was the least effective in American history. Between 2017 and 2021 his only ...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart The Pentagon: what is it good for? Apparently, absolutely nothing. Our military leaders live in the past and dream about what might be. They are out of touch with the real world, including their overrated “expertise” related to waging wars. Where is DOGE when we need it?. Fact: our military leaders have lost every war since WWII. Their entire organization is incompetent and wasteful, underserving of an annual budget reaching nearly one trillion dollars. Trump wants to raise it to 1.5 trillion dollars. Watchdog groups have confirmed that 50 cents out of every dollar goes to waste. Many of their expensive toys simply don’t work when used in modern warfare. ANOTHER LOSS IN IRAN IS IMMINENT, AND OUR SOLDIERS SERVING ABROAD ARE IN GREAT DANGER What upsets me the most is the fact that our military “leaders” are willing to accept orders from a self-admitted fascist and a draft dodger. Trump is not concerned about the loss of American lives, or the fact that his war is ...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Some facts about the current leadership in the Pentagon. Our military leaders have lost every war since WWII. However, each year Congress increases the Pentagon’s budget, although it was clear that they wasted 50 percent of their previous budget attempting to create the “ultimate weapon,” regardless of futility and waste. In 2026, the Pentagon received $961.6 billion dollars. However, the worst was yet to come. COMMITTING WAR CRIMES AND VIOLATING THE UCMJ I grew up watching every John Wayne WWII movie ever made. They increased my already profound feelings of patriotism. However, today’s military leaders are not actors, and their actions are far from noble. First, an important fact. The Pentagon is not bound by law to obey the orders of their Commander-in-Chief if those orders violate the Constitution or the Universal Code of Military Justice. Trump and Hegseth’s murders of more than 100 passengers on speed boats off the coast of Venezuela, are actions of nothing...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Throughout history, tyrannical despots have been deposed by force. Great power is the ultimate aphrodisiac, and for weak men, unavoidable. One man cannot be allowed to place his personal ambitions ahead of an entire nation. IL DUCE Benito Mussolini created the Italian Fascist Party. By April of 1945, it was apparent that his dream of re-creating his country into a modern day Rome would fail. The allies were coming, and his fate was clear. Mussolini was Adolf Hitler’s primary ally. He was unaware that the Third Reich was negotiating a complete surrender. His Nazi friend could no longer protect the ruthless dictator. On April 27, as he and his mistress attempted to escape by car, he was detained in Dongo, hidden in a small farmhouse overnight. The following day, Mussolini and Petacci were removed from the house and driven to the small village of Giulino di Mezzegra on the shores of Lake Como. They were forced to stand in front of a brick wall and executed by machi...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart I have known about ‘the real Donald Trump’ since 2015 when I began writing about the failed businessman. However, I, and no other political writer could have foreseen how horrific his illegitimate presidencies have become. The mainstream media won’t tell the absolute truth, but I will. Trump is a fascist, a Hitler wannabe, and the leader of the American Nazi Party. Thanks to six corrupt Supreme Court Justices, he has become a dictator. Placing him above the law and granting him powers not intended by our Founding Fathers allows him to ignore his responsibilities as a sitting president and use his position for personal gain and revenge on his millions of enemies. Trump has absolute control over actions by the executive, judicial, and legislative branches of our government. What disappoints and frightens me the most is how the Pentagon surrendered to a fascist who is a draft dodger and once called American soldiers buried in France after WWI “losers and suckers.” ...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart It’s a sad fact that I was not surprised that Trump chose Pete Hegseth to be Secretary of Defense. They are very similar. Both are white supremacists, sexual predators, and confirmed criminals. Hegseth is also a well-known alcoholic whose antics embarrassed everyone he knew. It was also important for Trump that Hegseth was a part-time personality on his personal propaganda machine, Fox News. Trump and Hegseth made a decision to attack a group of Democrats who offered advice to our military who are being forced to act like a Gestapo in our nation’s “blue” states. They made a public service announcement informing our men and women in uniform that if what they are ordered to do is a violation of federal law or the Constitution, they are not required to carry out those orders. Trump is not a confirmed fascist dictator. At least not yet. Nothing upsets Trump more than the truth. He is known to fly into rage at any moment when one of his illegal actions is exposed. Ne...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Born in July of 1946, it is obvious that I am an original baby boomer. My father was discharged from the United States Navy in Seattle Washington in 1945. He met my mother, who had been working for Boeing during the war. They married in July, and less than a year later I took my first breaths. I was too young to know much about the Korean Conflict. Most of what I learned about it came from the popular television show, “MASH.” The first war I remember was Vietnam. I graduated from high school in 1964 and enlisted in the USAF. I couldn’t afford college, and the recruiter promised me that the Air Force would train me well. He lied. However, I feel a small amount of gratitude. After I was out of tech school in Mississippi, the war in Vietnam rapidly escalated. I might have died for nothing on a battlefield halfway around the world. I was medically discharged in 1965. I watched the news as the body bags began to arrive from Southeast Asia. I learned that some of the ...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart As an original baby boomer, it won’t surprise you that most of what I watched on television growing up in Los Angeles were movies and weekly shows involving cowboys and World War II. I was mesmerized by John Wayne and the way he made every soldier heroic. He created a similar image for the men who built the West in his “B” westerns. Approximately 416, 800 members of the U.S. military lost their lives in the war to defeat fascism. One of the men credited with the “D-day” victory on June 6, 1944, Dwight D. Eisenhower, was elected to the presidency in 1952 when I was just six years old. When I was 10, I watched a large party of his second convention and nomination for reelection. His farewell address in 1961 was a prophecy for what is happening in our nation today. Since August of 1945, when WWII came to an end with the controversial decision to drop nuclear weapons on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, incompetent leaders working inside the Pentagon, have lost every war, and...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Over the last seven months, gun violence/domestic terrorism has experienced a huge increase. This happened in 2017 when Trump was enjoying his first illegitimate presidency. Domestic terrorism and mass shootings make America the most dangerous nation in the world. Add to this the end of American democracy and the fascist in the White House who is eager to place anyone who is not pure white in his growing number of concentration camps, and I ask an honest question: “Why would anyone from a foreign nation want to come to America.?” Trump is a national disaster. His policies are destroying the flourishing economy he inherited from President Biden. It is now completely clear that the Pentagon supports its fascist/Nazi Commander-in-Chief. This is sad for many reasons, but most importantly because WWII was a fight against fascism. The leaders of our military are telling the American people that the more than 407,000 men and women who sacrificed their lives to save the...

The military of the United States of America is justifiably described as the “largest and most expensive in the world.” After reading and writing about the Pentagon for more than 10 years, I have one word to describe our nation’s military leaders: “incompetent.” First, the cost. Multiple watchdog groups claim that 50 cents out of every dollar allotted to the Pentagon is wasted. After what I have learned, they are correct. It may be more than 50 cents since Afghanistan and Iraq. Most importantly, the most powerful military force in the world has lost every war since WWII. Thousands of lives and trillions of dollars have been lost; all for nothing. On Wednesday a preventable tragedy happened in the skies above Washington D.C. An American Airlines passenger aircraft collided with a military Blackhawk helicopter, killing 64 in the airliner, and three crewmen aboard the Blackhawk. Regardless of the explanations yet to come, what the hell was a military aircraft doing in the path of a schedu...

Our nation’s leadership at all levels is dominated by hypocrisy. One issue I have addressed multiple times involves our nation’s military who serve in war zones at the will of Congress and the Pentagon. It’s been the same old story all of my life, from Vietnam to Iraq and Afghanistan. The Pentagon tells Congress that they need more troops to win the war, and they say how many. With each increase in the number of soldiers ready to give their lives for who knows what, the number of body bags is doubled. The fat asses who sit in the Pentagon and on Capitol Hill will not be risking their lives or the lives of their children in battle. The irony is that our military leaders have lost every illegal and immoral war since WWII. The sad truth is that none of the young men I knew who were forced to fight in Vietnam knew what they were fighting for. I make an admission here about my negative personal feelings for the military. However, it has no influence in this story. In the mid 1960’s the war ...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart I have no doubt that the brass in the Pentagon is pleased and proud that the government of the United States spends five-times more money on its military budget than all other nations combined. But why does our government continue to raise the Pentagon’s annual budget when it wastes 50 cents of every dollar they receive? (The latter according to several “watchdog groups.”) We are a nation which is constantly preparing for the next war. However, there are no plans for permanent peace. It is undeniable that if a third World War begins, it will end with the complete destruction of our planet. So, why does our military continue to pay for the manufacture of machines to fight ground wars? Not a single “conventional war” has been fought since WWII. Let me offer one classic example of military waste and plans for spending even more taxpayer dollars on equipment which will likely do nothing but gather dust until a new version comes along. Our military has about 3,700 Br...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart   Watchdog groups claim that fifty cents out of every dollar receiv ed by the Pentagon annually is waste d. It was clear during the George W. Bu sh Administration that the illegal wars in Afghanistan and Iraq helped the Bush family, Dick Cheney, and Deputy Secretary of Defense, Paul Wolfowitz become multi-billionaires.    “War is good business .” Investing in the military industrial complex makes billionaires out of millionaires.     THE UNITED STATES MILITARY IS POWERFUL, AND FUNDED FIVE-TIMES MORE THAN ALL OTHER NAITONS COMBINED   The annual budget of our nation’s military is nearing one-trillion dollars per year. This, combined with the fact that this amoun t is five-times more than all other nation’s combined should guarantee victory in any military conflict, large or small. So, let’s look a t history.   The Korean Conflict occurred between Jun 25, 1950 – Jul 27, 1953 . When the conflict ended, there was no winn er. T...