The Israeli government has started a war with Iran by striking inside Iran with missiles.  Israeli officials have been saying for decades that Iran is just weeks or months away from getting a nuclear bomb.

After the initial attack, Marco Rubio came out and said that the U.S. is not involved in the strike against Iran.

So, the U.S. government gives money to Israel, gives weapons to Israel, gives intelligence to Israel, and commits to defending Israel as its closest ally, but we can be assured that the U.S. is not involved here.

Meanwhile, Trump comes out and posts that Iran should have made a deal sooner.  Maybe Trump should have told Israel that they would be on their own if they attacked Iran, but no such thing happened.  In fact, it is reported that the U.S. is assisting Israel in shooting down Iranian missiles as part of Iran’s retaliatory strike.

It’s interesting that Trump talks about negotiating with Iran.  It is like negotiating with a bank robber who is holding a gun to your head.  You tend not to have a lot of negotiating power at that point.  You basically have two choices.  You can give the person holding a gun to your head what they want, or you can refuse and try to defend yourself.  It isn’t really a negotiation for Iran.

“Iran Can’t Be Allowed to Have Nukes”

It’s amazing watching politicians and the media state over and over again that Iran can’t be allowed to have nukes.  They never even question the premise, and it is hard to imagine if anyone openly challenged this premise.

Why can’t Iran be allowed to have nukes?  And who says?

So, the U.S. government gets to dictate who gets to have nukes?  There is only one government on planet earth that has ever used nuclear weapons against a civilian population, and it wasn’t Iran.

There are now people saying that if Iran was allowed to get nukes that they would use them on Israel and the United States.  I mean, maybe now that Israel and the U.S. have essentially declared war on Iran and threatened to bomb them into the Stone Age.  But if these two countries just completely ignored Iran, why is there this assumption that Iran would strike?

Of course, even if Iran got nukes, it probably wouldn’t be capable of delivering a strike on the United States.

But is anyone actually dumb enough to believe this would happen if Iranian officials did have the capability?  They know that they would be obliterated 100 times over if they ever did that.

There are these great lines about Iran funding terrorism.  Maybe they funded Osama bin Laden.  Oh wait, that was the U.S. government.  Maybe Iran funded terrorists who took over Syria.  Oh wait, again, that was the U.S. government.

Also, let’s all remember the Libya model, where they agreed to give up their weapons.  After that, Obama and Hillary marched in there and killed Gaddafi.  With that example, why would any country openly give up their weapons to please the United States government?

At Least We Don’t Have Kamala?

One thing that Trump supporters have said is that Trump didn’t start any new wars in his first term in office.  Of course, he continued many of the wars and he also got close with Iran by assassinating an Iranian official.

But here we are less than 5 months into Trump’s second term and we have seen Yemen bombed and now a war with Iran.  Plus, Trump has not been able to end the war in Ukraine, and he continues to fund the slaughter of tens of thousands of innocent people in Gaza.

If this is a peace president, I don’t want a peace president.

It is even hard these days to hear Trump supporters who may be a little disappointed with his foreign policy say that at least we don’t have Kamala.

There have been a few good things out of Trump’s presidency the last 5 months, but it all seems to be diminished quite a bit when we are facing major wars and conflicts.  Sure, it might be great that Trump has curtailed DEI policies, but does that even compare to getting in a new war?

What is the line in the sand for the hardcore Trump supporters?  What if we get into a world war with Russia or China?  What if nukes are flying across continents?

Will the Trump supporter being incinerated by a nuclear bomb yell one last time, “At least we didn’t get Kamala”?