This is for the Saudis and Qatar...(who are Sunni while Iran is Shia). And because they gave trump and family a s**t-ton of money. Somehow, Netanyahu is in on this game as well. This is so that something awful will happen and trump a declare a national emergency that did not need to happen and is of his own making. This is some scary shit.
Written with deep experience and insight. (It is very concerning that the Republican leaders in the Senate and House seem perfectly content to be mere passive observers --- and not real participants in our constitutional system. In my day as a congressional aide a half-century ago, the Republicans and Democrats I worked for, cared about their constitutional responsibilities.
Once again, Trump has gone for the splashy move to cow an opponent to get what he wants. But the Iranians didn’t follow his script. No doubt they will pay a heavy price, which includes innocent civilians, who don’t seem to have figured greatly in whatever U.S. thinking has been. But now that Trump has unleashed a war, his ability to control events shrinks dramatically. As the inevitably unforeseen and unplanned-for consequences pile up, his choices narrow to just hoping things turn out as he wants, or he chooses some moment to declare victory (whether or not it is a hollow boast), desists, and then tries to convince Americans that he has not wreaked significant damage on the United States and our form of governance. Either course is dangerously and tragically inept. And while it is hard to predict, the fact that so many strategic questions remain unanswered in this “strike first and think later” action suggests that it could well end up creating more problems than it solves.
59 years ago, today we lost Marine Lt Thomas B Dowd in RVN (, K-3-1] in another useless, but very expensive unconstitutional war. We lost 59,220 with 100,000 wounded. Brother Trump missed the action claiming a sore foot. Congress had wet fingers in the air and ducked their war powers authority.
We have been fighting a war on terror ever since Trump told us never again after Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan.
Yesterday, from Mar a Lago not the situation room, he did another 180 ,to distract us to save his sorry ass without consulting the owners of our Constitutional war powers by sending 40,000 of our precious treasure into a Persian beehive. He knocked off the top terrorist out of 90 million and achieved uniting all the terrorists in the world to repeat 9/11 and bomb everything in the western world including our Jewish brothers and sisters led by a fellow maniac trying to save his political ass. (Notice how Bibi is fronting for Taco) Not to worry, JD promises no wider war with Pete at the helm and our sorry reps are going to debate whether we
I did step on a field nest of yellow jackets in our neighbor’s field at age 6 and got +/- 100 stings. Adults carried me indoors to a tub. Neighbors were rallied to bring ice. They saved my life. It was in the local newspaper. <> Congress & 6/9 SCOTUS neglect of duty makes Americans a threat to world peace & stability. It seems our only leverage may be to boycott the 47 backers into oblivion & use general strike to delegitimize the 47 antidemocracy & antidecency regime.
With all due respect, and respectfully, I disagree. I cheered Country Joe McDonald on as soon as I heard his song, but when it was sung in Woodstock I was in Germany, probably typing messages for some of these "Steady State" founders. I missed being in Vietnam by the grace of fortune. It was a horrible mistake. But many, many American political (mis)steps led to it, starting with none other than Dwight Eisenhower The Gulf of Tonkin affair was just one more. And LBJ was a truly great domestic leader, without whose force of personality we would not have gotten the Civil Rights Act, never mind the "Great Society" social programs.
He was a "flawed man," as the saying goes. But please don't even think of mentioning his name anywhere near the piece of filthy flotsam in the White House today.
I get youJayna. Maybe I was a little too flip, but the intent was to compare meddling in the internal politics of another country, as we did in Vietnam. As for Iran, it is one thing to inhibit them from creating nuclear weapons and quite another to kill the leaders and tell the people to revolt. Similarly, in Vietnam we meddled by propping up one side and helping them fend off the other.
There’s the problem that a mass bloody attack on an adversary at peace with no authorization for military force is unlawful. We cannot grant unequivocal respect to service operatives carrying out orders that are both unlawful and transparently murderous.
You're calling on Congress to do it's Constitutional role. That's what many of us have been saying since January of last year! What is that role? To stop the illegal and unconstitutional actions of a sitting president?? How does the Congress go about that...? A Congress that every two years may have a different majority. Is that the determinating factor in action?
I'm asking a serious and honest question. I really don't know. You're the people who do: please share the answer with the multitude of us who don't understand why we're still waiting over a year. I'd sincerely appreciate a response, if you please.
There are at least 30 people on social media who are smarter than I and have more credentials to comment on war, foreign policy, Donald Trump, history, law, and forecasting. I have one small contribution. Having been raised in a political household in D.C., I believe I read Donald Trump like a dirty book.
The war has indeed got purposes. The intents are to install Israel/USA as a military planetary hegemon by controlling the Strait of Hormuz, thus controlling the shipping of oil and trade; to install another puppet government in Iran; to thereby surround all of inner Asia militarily; to marginalize and trivialize NATO; and to impose a Christo-Judean fascist state on the planet.
As I already stated (repeatedly) during Trump’s first tenure:
He is an INTERNATIONAL SECURITY RISK - now threat
This is for the Saudis and Qatar...(who are Sunni while Iran is Shia). And because they gave trump and family a s**t-ton of money. Somehow, Netanyahu is in on this game as well. This is so that something awful will happen and trump a declare a national emergency that did not need to happen and is of his own making. This is some scary shit.
Written with deep experience and insight. (It is very concerning that the Republican leaders in the Senate and House seem perfectly content to be mere passive observers --- and not real participants in our constitutional system. In my day as a congressional aide a half-century ago, the Republicans and Democrats I worked for, cared about their constitutional responsibilities.
Passive observers is way too kind. The Republicans in Congress are enablers and are complicit in war crimes.
Once again, Trump has gone for the splashy move to cow an opponent to get what he wants. But the Iranians didn’t follow his script. No doubt they will pay a heavy price, which includes innocent civilians, who don’t seem to have figured greatly in whatever U.S. thinking has been. But now that Trump has unleashed a war, his ability to control events shrinks dramatically. As the inevitably unforeseen and unplanned-for consequences pile up, his choices narrow to just hoping things turn out as he wants, or he chooses some moment to declare victory (whether or not it is a hollow boast), desists, and then tries to convince Americans that he has not wreaked significant damage on the United States and our form of governance. Either course is dangerously and tragically inept. And while it is hard to predict, the fact that so many strategic questions remain unanswered in this “strike first and think later” action suggests that it could well end up creating more problems than it solves.
Impeach him!
59 years ago, today we lost Marine Lt Thomas B Dowd in RVN (, K-3-1] in another useless, but very expensive unconstitutional war. We lost 59,220 with 100,000 wounded. Brother Trump missed the action claiming a sore foot. Congress had wet fingers in the air and ducked their war powers authority.
We have been fighting a war on terror ever since Trump told us never again after Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan.
Yesterday, from Mar a Lago not the situation room, he did another 180 ,to distract us to save his sorry ass without consulting the owners of our Constitutional war powers by sending 40,000 of our precious treasure into a Persian beehive. He knocked off the top terrorist out of 90 million and achieved uniting all the terrorists in the world to repeat 9/11 and bomb everything in the western world including our Jewish brothers and sisters led by a fellow maniac trying to save his political ass. (Notice how Bibi is fronting for Taco) Not to worry, JD promises no wider war with Pete at the helm and our sorry reps are going to debate whether we
fight.
Anyone ever hit a beehive?
I did step on a field nest of yellow jackets in our neighbor’s field at age 6 and got +/- 100 stings. Adults carried me indoors to a tub. Neighbors were rallied to bring ice. They saved my life. It was in the local newspaper. <> Congress & 6/9 SCOTUS neglect of duty makes Americans a threat to world peace & stability. It seems our only leverage may be to boycott the 47 backers into oblivion & use general strike to delegitimize the 47 antidemocracy & antidecency regime.
Figuratively ice the dangerous toxin.
The fate of the world is in the hands of fools.
Shades of Vietnam. Trump is the new LBJ.
With all due respect, and respectfully, I disagree. I cheered Country Joe McDonald on as soon as I heard his song, but when it was sung in Woodstock I was in Germany, probably typing messages for some of these "Steady State" founders. I missed being in Vietnam by the grace of fortune. It was a horrible mistake. But many, many American political (mis)steps led to it, starting with none other than Dwight Eisenhower The Gulf of Tonkin affair was just one more. And LBJ was a truly great domestic leader, without whose force of personality we would not have gotten the Civil Rights Act, never mind the "Great Society" social programs.
He was a "flawed man," as the saying goes. But please don't even think of mentioning his name anywhere near the piece of filthy flotsam in the White House today.
I get youJayna. Maybe I was a little too flip, but the intent was to compare meddling in the internal politics of another country, as we did in Vietnam. As for Iran, it is one thing to inhibit them from creating nuclear weapons and quite another to kill the leaders and tell the people to revolt. Similarly, in Vietnam we meddled by propping up one side and helping them fend off the other.
🤞
Absolutely.
https://substack.com/profile/464484819-zippie-do-dah/note/c-221820165
I do hope that there are good, sane people in Iran guarding the 60% enriched uranium through all this (and will stay guarding it)
There’s the problem that a mass bloody attack on an adversary at peace with no authorization for military force is unlawful. We cannot grant unequivocal respect to service operatives carrying out orders that are both unlawful and transparently murderous.
You're calling on Congress to do it's Constitutional role. That's what many of us have been saying since January of last year! What is that role? To stop the illegal and unconstitutional actions of a sitting president?? How does the Congress go about that...? A Congress that every two years may have a different majority. Is that the determinating factor in action?
I'm asking a serious and honest question. I really don't know. You're the people who do: please share the answer with the multitude of us who don't understand why we're still waiting over a year. I'd sincerely appreciate a response, if you please.
Fears at home in America regarding their constitutional rights and freedoms are much higher than their fear of a real threat from Iran.
There are at least 30 people on social media who are smarter than I and have more credentials to comment on war, foreign policy, Donald Trump, history, law, and forecasting. I have one small contribution. Having been raised in a political household in D.C., I believe I read Donald Trump like a dirty book.
The war has indeed got purposes. The intents are to install Israel/USA as a military planetary hegemon by controlling the Strait of Hormuz, thus controlling the shipping of oil and trade; to install another puppet government in Iran; to thereby surround all of inner Asia militarily; to marginalize and trivialize NATO; and to impose a Christo-Judean fascist state on the planet.