If you say the US has no interest in continuing war in Iran, and Trump is only doing it to serve Israel and the Gulf State tyrannies he loves and that enrich his family, you'll be called an anti-Semitic conspiracy theorist.
But then Trump just comes out and says it himself:
Just shared this with a friend who’s hurting.
Today being Good Friday, here’s the greatest reminder I’ve ever seen that with belief in what the Gospel of Jesus Christ teaches & repentance of sins in prayer, Heaven awaits! It’s Thy not I. Ask that “thief.”
https://t.co/ptdD8Ru0Qn
Operation EPIC FURY assessment:
1) It’s not going to achieve regime change
2) The new Iranian government is less likely to make a favorable nuke deal
3) It’s would be extremely difficult to open the Strait of Hormuz by military means
4) It will likely to take serious concessions to Iran to open the Strait
Trump is better to cut his losses and extricate himself from the mess any way he can. He can declare “victory” through Iran’s weakened military capabilities
What makes Tulsi Gabbard's behavior extra pathetic is that not only did Trump publicly state he doesn't give a shit what she thinks, but they have also excluded her from key national security meetings because they don't trust her.
Sacrificing all dignity for an empty title.
Israel is a sovereignty issue, no less than immigration. If we don’t control our borders, we don’t have a country. If we don’t control our foreign policy, we don’t have a country.
I don't need to search the world for things to be concerned about. My concerns are the ones right in front of me: my family, my friends, my town.
I get that neocons will neocon. But even a handful of people on the actual right are cheering about Iran.
How are house prices doing in America? How about the lost souls wandering the streets of our cities at night, or the conservative families who did everything right but their kids got caught in the trans hideousness anyway?
It is the left that, bored with bourgeois life, historically inverted this natural order.
Rousseau was all tears and pity about the earthquake in Lisbon, but put his own children in a foundling asylum.
John Lennon wanted world peace, but had no contact with his son from his first marriage.
The best line in the Tucker Carlson interview of the heretical Mike Huckabee was when Huckabee said that without Iran we wouldn't have the problem on the border with Lebanon, and Tucker responded, the way a conservative would, by saying: what problem on the border with Lebanon? I'm not having a problem on the border with Lebanon. I live in Maine.
And we weren't born yesterday: no right winger, observing the American regime, thinks to himself: these people care deeply about the Iranian public.
But as our own country crumbles, the temptation to get excited about foreign adventures increases. It's a perverse paradox.
I promise you, Sean Hannity and Mark Levin do not steer you right, and they are not steering you right now.
If you're on the right, you have an appreciation for the precariousness of the human condition. You certainly do not think: if the regime deposes a man it dislikes, this will lead to a better outcome. You do not know that. History is not kind to that kind of naïveté, and if there's one thing right-wingers are not, it is naive.
The true heart of America is not Ben Shapiro but John Quincy Adams (and Henry Clay, and so many others who echoed the same sentiments):
"[America] has, in the lapse of nearly half a century, without a single exception, respected the independence of other nations while asserting and maintaining her own.
"She has abstained from interference in the concerns of others, even when conflict has been for principles to which she clings, as to the last vital drop that visits the heart....
"Wherever the standard of freedom and Independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will her heart, her benedictions and her prayers be.
"But she goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy.
"She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.
"She is the champion and vindicator only of her own."
"Hey Lindsey, why don't you just admit that you're gay, and then people won't blackmail you anymore?"
- Patrick Howley @HowleyReporter to Lindsey Graham
Anyone still saying this was a counterterrorism operation, rather than an attempt to make Gaza unlivable and drive out the population, is a shameless liar, and they deserve the same response as if they’d spit in your face.