So, like everyone who was paying attention last week
predicted (myself included), we’re at war with Iran. I’m
sure the president expects the country to rally around him the way everyone did
with Bush II during the Afghanistan War. There’s nothing he’d like better than
to see himself portrayed as a battle-hardened wartime president.
And I don’t think there is much support for Iran’s theocratic regime either. There’s no question that the Middle East would be better off without them in command. Word is that the Supreme Leader was blown up over the weekend, along with the people the Administration thought would be next in line. In fact, they even had plans to work with them to set up a new government. It probably would have worked better if they hadn‘t blown them to bits.
Who knew we had the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch in our arsenal?
I’m actually surprised there wasn’t a plan to capture some of the clerics in charge,
so they could be debriefed. I bet TFG would love to hear more about how these
few people used religion to keep the masses in line and themselves in power
indefinitely. That’s a good source of knowledge gone to waste.
So while it seems like good news on the surface, I still
have nagging doubts. Right off the bat, you have to have a hard time believing
any information that comes from this White House. This is an administration that
has turned lying to your face into an art form. There’s no assertion too
ridiculous to pursue if it’s something the president sputtered out. So excuse
me if I don’t believe anything until I’ve seen confirmation from outside the
Administration. And with the consolidation of national news media under
Republican control, we can’t trust many of them to report independently. I
expect most will simply parrot whatever the White House tells them.
The other thing is, these are people who go off
half-cocked regularly. The president says what he wants, and they fly
into action. Where’s the plan? How do we even know that there is one? These
guys have cocked up a bunch of initiatives only to have to walk them back amid unforeseen
consequences.
For all we know, he may be angling for a new Trump Tower
in Tehran. He might be acting on someone else’s behalf, maybe someone who has
compromising information on him, like we all suspect Israel and Russia do. Maybe
his defense contractor donors need another influx of cash, so they request that
we use up some of our weapons stockpile so that they may sell us replacements. Or
maybe he and Whisky Pete just want to see some things go boom, and feel that
swelling in their man parts, like so many other fake tough-guys. And for whatever reason, this “Operation Epic Epstein Fury” (thanks Hackwacker)
certainly provides the distraction that they so desperately need. Before too
long, we’ll be hearing that they’re far too busy with this war to worry about
pursuing Epstein-related charges.
As for American casualties, that’s just an abstraction
for this Administration. They don’t give a rusty fuck about losing our
servicemen. “Suckers and losers,” remember? They’re just assets on a balance. You
can tell by the way they’ve essentially neutralized the VA, making an already
overwhelmed institution even more ineffective, by starving it of money and
resources.
And if they don’t care about our losses, they sure don’t give a shit about Iranian civilians
caught in the bomb zones. Right out of the chute, the first thing we heard was
that we blew up a school for girls. Granted, when this first came out, I had
doubts about the veracity. I mean, it’s right there in the Middle East
playbook: Declare losses of benign entities and claim victimhood. You see it
every time, when they claim we blew up a school, or a hospital, or a falafel
factory. They omit the part where the factory was making falafel AND IEDs.
But by now, I’ve seen a lot of confirmation and nothing
to the contrary, so I believe the part about the girls’ school now. And I also
believe that no one in the Administration cares. Do you think they’ll seriously
admit to a mistake? About anything? Not these guys. If asked, they’ll come up
with some kind of ridiculous
rationalization.
But it makes you wonder, that with all our famed intel and spy capabilities, how did we come to bomb a girls’ school? That’s not a great way to change the hearts and minds needed to foment a new West-friendly government. It’s just more evidence to them that we’re a well-armed Goliath who can’t be trusted.
Late Development
New reports call into question the White House's rationale for the bombing, that Iran's attack on us was imminent. Not so, says the Pentagon, in a Congressional briefing:
Oops. But again, it just goes to show how easily this Administration lies to us.
