Trump ordered a major attack on Iran. The bombs dropped. The cruise missiles flew. The satellite photos were published. Everything is the same as it was before.
Donald Trump interrupted his sacred Saturday round of cheating at his golf club in New Jersey to touch off a new War between the United States and Iran.
Like presidents before him, Trump wants a big air campaign and a quick win against another country. Like his predecessors, he—and the rest of us—will be sorely disappointed.
Trump is not just mulling over an attack on Iran’s nuclear facility with some big bombs dropped from high altitude stealth bombers. He’s getting ready to start a war.
After the weekend that showed Trump how enormous his opposition is, and how organized—and how peaceful, for crying out loud—he’s mad as hell, and as luck would have it, he has a way to show it.
With all the talk of aircraft carriers and tankers and cargo planes and jets being sent to the Middle East to defend American interests, it would smart to keep an eye peeled for some sort of wag-the-dog fake Iranian provocation.
While Trump's parade looked like amateur hour at Dictatorville, there was no mistaking the crowded streets and sidewalks of towns and cities around the country.
This is our country. We are patriotic citizens of a democracy, and we will protect it by ensuring we remain a country that is of the people, for the people, and by the people.
Trump's regime of illegality is reminiscent of what Black people went through in the South during Jim Crow, when legal behavior by Black U.S. citizens was declared illegal.
The danger we face right now is if unrest in the streets of our cities provides Trump with the opportunity to deploy Reserve, National Guard, or active-duty soldiers to quell unrest that Trump can define as a rebellion or insurrection.
Trump’s federalization of the National Guard and deploying 2,000 of them to L.A. is a tactic meant to intimidate a city that didn’t vote for him in the largest state that didn’t vote for him.
“Warrior culture” and "lethality" are made-up macho nonsense. The soldiers serving on active duty are not engaged in a “lifestyle” as Trump so stupidly puts it. They are serving their country, no matter who they are under the uniform.