I just had to get this out of my system and off my chest, quickly…
Against all odds, the United States and its titanically awful president keep coming up with new ways to set the bar even lower. Every week brings a new horror, a new level of chaos and criminality, a new empty shelf in America’s ever-dwindling warehouse of credibility as a sane and moral member of the global community.
The recently launched war in Iran is a case in point. There is no reason in the world the United States should have launched attacks against Iran or gotten itself neck-deep in a widening Middle East conflict. No reason at all. Yet here we are – just like two decades ago, when we got mixed up in a similar affair in Iraq for no good reason, and found ourselves mired in a prolonged and bloody clusterf**k half a world away.
Some of the bombs dropped this week reportedly hit an Iranian school and killed dozens of children. This is the purest form of evil and recklessness you can conjure up. I can’t think of a single justification for it. Anyone who can is sick and subhuman and can go screw themselves.
Another person who died in the attack was Iran’s former Supreme Leader, who reigned over the country for nearly four decades. By all appearances, he was an oppressive despot who ruled with an iron fist and vengeful heart.
His government reportedly killed thousands of Iranian dissidents prior to the U.S./Israeli attack. That’s sad and tragic, and I wish it hadn’t happened. But Iran is an ancient country with lots of smart people, so let them work it out on their own. It’s their problem, not ours. I doubt many Iranians care that American protestors have also been murdered by our own oppressive regime in recent months.
In a world filled with grief and want, sometimes you need to focus on problems near at hand rather than those in far-off lands. And the fact is, America wouldn’t give two shits about Iran if wasn’t an oil-rich country in an oil-rich part of the world.
Personally, I don’t care about Iran’s oil. I don’t care about any of the oil in the Middle East. Most people don’t care about it. The only ones who do care about it are the same rich, greedy assholes who would slaughter half the world’s population if it meant the black gold kept flowing. They’d let the other half die if there were no oil to be gained by saving them.
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The U.S. administration keeps making up lies about why we are involved in the Iran war. First, they said we launched the attack because we wanted to encourage dissidents there to install a new regime, purportedly to bring more stability to the region. That’s hilarious. Just hilarious.
I’m not old enough to remember when there actually was stability in the region — and I’m a pretty old dude. I’m not sure there ever has been. Geopolitical and religious tensions in the Middle East date back decades, centuries, millennia. These tensions are not going away, no matter how much we pretend they might. What’s more, by bombing the crap out of Iran, the dissidents there now hate us as much as they hated the regime they protested against.
Next, the U.S. administration said it needed to attack Iran because Iran is working on nuclear weapons. That was the same excuse we used when we invaded Iraq in the early 2000s. It was bullshit then, and it’s bullshit now. When that excuse didn’t stick, they changed the narrative to Iran’s ballistic missiles.
Next, one of the administration’s endless roster of soulless toadies said the reason the U.S. got involved was that Israel was going to attack Iran, anyway, so the U.S. president wanted to preempt Iran’s counterattack, or some such thing.
There may be the tiniest grain of truth in that. The U.S. president is nothing if not eager to suck up to Israel’s prime minister, a murderous, criminal thug who wants to keep launching military attacks to draw attention away from his own unpopularity and lawlessness.
The U.S. president can relate on a personal level, considering that he’s a convicted felon who’s desperately trying to deflect attention away from an ever-widening pedophile/sexual abuse/child rape scandal that involves both himself and some of his billionaire buddies and sycophants.
The leaders of Israel and America are horrible men – corrupt, arrogant, criminal, power-mad. They’re killing innocent people in weaker countries because they can’t bear the thought of living in a world where chaos doesn’t fill every moment.
They know, as we all know, that chaos might be the only thing keeping them out of prison.
If it takes a war, then they’re perfectly fine with that.
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Vance Cariaga 