Thank you again for your clarity, Jen. This regime is full of cruel, corrupt, incompetent death dealers. Anyone waiting for more evidence of how much WE need regime change isn't paying attention, or has completely lost the plot-- of what it means to be human.
Agreed. And it should be understood that this is both incompetence and cruelty. Because I think it is simultaneously true that the Trump administration lacks both the competence and the interest in having rescued Americans from the war zone. Simply put, they don't care.
"It will be up to the voters to throw out every elected Republican and force the removal of the architects of this catastrophe. Until that happens, Americans here and abroad will needlessly suffer and die." Is this the only choice citizens have? Can March 28 peace demo do something? It is too long to wait till next year January.
I appreciate and thank you for your correct and righteous outrage. I am afraid that I believe their whole strategy is to burn the house down. This fits that. Also with no strategy for removing people from the war zone there are no awkward photos of American aircraft evacuating people. Just the war glory bombing stuff even if it is children’s schools.
Americans being trapped are of course just one of the many terrible consequences of this illegal, unjustified carnage by the US/Israel alliance.
The massacre of 180 schoolchildren is an obvious war crime. The bombing of an oil refinery in Tehran, covering the city with acrid black smoke, acid rain and oil droplets from the sky, is an abomination of epic proportions. Many schools and hospitals in Iran have already been bombed. The death toll is certainly far higher than the 1300+ now accounted for.
It is clear now more than ever that it is the US/Israel alliance, not Iran, that is the primary driver of destabilization and violence in the Middle East. The alliance's genocide in Gaza still continues, and now the alliance is carpet bombing a city more dense than New York while bombing another country's capital (Beirut).
Both of the 'ceasefires' in Gaza and Lebanon did not result in a single day free of US/Israeli bombing and killing in either region.
It shouldn't surprise anyone that, since there was no consequence whatsoever for the onslaught in Gaza and the escalation of apartheid in the West Bank, this alliance would continue on the same path.
The US/Israel alliance has killed hundreds of thousands of Muslims in the Middle East this century. That number is very likely close to a million men, women and children killed. And now, that number is increasing every hour.
We Americans will pay for this carnage. The next 9/11 is probably incubating in the countries we’ve bombed. Meanwhile, this administration has directed agencies away from national security to terrorizing American cities.
Well said, Katina. Prof. Timothy Snyder wrote a piece on his Substack yesterday that scared the hell out of me. It is a dire warning, and all Americans should read it.
Thank you for this link. I read it. Scary indeed. I think it's gotten to the point where "treasonous" is an apt adjective for this gang of destructors.
We may pay for it....I am not sure though, since the US and Israel have been completely unaccountable for the genocide in Gaza thus far. But yes, some sort of backlash will likely come sooner or later.
The people in Iran are now paying for it, every second of every day. the people in the Occupied territories have never stopped paying for it for generations. The families of people the US/ISraeli alliance have killed across the Middle East and Africa continue to pay for it too.
You now have thrown Africa into the mix. Muslims run rampant through African murdering civilians on a daily basis. They kidnap and rape girls then force them to convert to Islam.
I 'have thrown Africa into the mix' because the US has been bombing countries in north Africa and beyond for decades now, as well as across the Middle East. Almost always, these bombings are directed at Muslim populations.
No matter how much the defenders of US/Israeli led genocide and apartheid deny it, the fact remains that no alliance has killed, maimed raped, tortured, abducted and displaced Muslims like the BFFs the US and Israel.
The terrorism inflicted by these two countries together is just staggering.
Just this past week, the US has committed one of its single largest massacres of civilians in the post-Vietnam era (the other competitors were also, of course, perpetuated on Muslims, like the US attack on Iran Flight 655 in 1988 that killed 290 people). The destruction of oil depots in Tehran by Israel is the single largest chemical weapon attack this century.
No whataboutism can cover up the fact that the US and Israel are guilty of unspeakable war crimes, which they both continue to commit with gusto and fervor as you read this.
I absolutely agree with you. The Saudis were responsible for 9/11, but who coerced the stupid Oval goon into attacking? The Saudis look the innocents of course. It will only be a matter of time until some major American target gets it, and gets it big.
That is true of course. Plenty of non Muslims have also been killed by the US and Israel this century. I would wager that in the Middle East and North Africa, the majority have been Muslims.
The level of devastation in Gaza has served to numb the average taxpayer to further war crime actions, like the bombing of a school.
A BBC statement yesterday indicated that the war will end when israel determines, that's why our regime can't answer any questions about the scope of this excursion and likely why they keep tossing random reasons for the instigation in the first place. We have subsumed our national interests for another nation's and it is not going to serve us in the long run.
I agree, but would add that in addition to being numbed, the fact that no one in the US nor Israel has been held accountable at all for the genocide in Gaza has led directly to more carnage.
The US/Israeli alliance now feels it can just do what it wants, and not without reason.
You care not one iota for the Jewish lives lost throughout the world. Also, where were you when the Iranian regime murdered tens of thousands of Iranians in February ? Where were you when they murdered and mutilated women for not covering up? You posted nada. No Jews, no news!
More whataboutism...Do you have a clue what has been happening the past week, the past year, the past decade?
Israel and the US couldn't care less about the Iranian government's oppression against its own people. Not only have the policies of both countries directly play a part in the current status of Iran, going back to 1953 and before that, it is pure comedy to consider that either country gives 'one iota' about democracy or peace in Iran as both countries mass slaughter its residents.
But yes, your deep concern for Muslims is noted...all those women you care about are now being blown to pieces and showered with acid rain because of the governments you defend...just as they are in Gaza..in Lebanon..in the West Bank....as they were in Iraq..in Afghanistan....
You have a bizarre obsession with Israel. Additionally, you don't care one iota about Christian and Jews. You only care about Muslims, omitting that Muslim have committed more crimes against Jews, Christians and their own people than any other country. You never mention the crimes committed by Hamas and Hezbollah against Jews. Finally, the Lebanese may just get their country back. Iranian proxy, Hezbollah, has ruined that country. Syria doesn't want that terrorist group. They have stationed soldiers at the border with Lebanon to keep Hezbollah from escaping into Syria.
Your zealous ideology has no room for the women of Iran, nor for any Iranian. Why do you think the Iranian soldiers are hiding out in hospitals, apartment buildings, hospitals, sport centers? Why did Hamas hide out in hospitals, apartment buildings, churches, schools? Why did Hamas build tunnels under every building where civilians are? They love it when thousands of their people die because then people like you blame Israel. Why does Hamas steal food? Because people like you blame Israel.
You say so much nonsense here, I can't really reply to it all.
Start with the fact that Israel is a country, not a religion, and the US has a relationship with Israel like no other, by a long shot. This is clear as day to anyone with even a speck of critical thinking skills.
Iran is not the top recipient of US aid. The US does not block resolutions against Iran in the UN constantly. The US does not host the leaders of Iran in the White House, does not invite them to address Congress...
And , right now, anyone with a functioning brain can see this war is fully a joint US/Israel operation. Our own Secretary of State said clearly the US entered the war because of Israel. Is there any other country on Earth that the US has this kind of relationship? Of course not.
This is, obvious, why so many Americans are appalled by the actions of the US /Israeli alliance...because our country is directly responsible for these crimes. The US is not sending billions of dollars worth of bombs to Iran. Your entire argument rests on a completely ridiculous premise. Where is your mention of Israel's crimes? You constantly repat yourself saying essentially that no criticism of Israel is valid unless every other crimes by everyone else is criticized too. Forget that it's the US and Israel that constantly invade and bomb and occupy other countries, not the other way around. Forget that millions of people live with no rights under blockades and bombs and apartheid under Israel with the US help. For get that both Israel and the US have no problem doing business with rich Arab vassal states that are repressive to their populations when it suits their interests.
When a person says they are concerned about one thing, that does not mean that person isn't concerned about anything else. This is another just ridiculous whataboutism argument. It is like the person who shows up at a rally against breast cancer and yells 'what about lung cancer? You don't even care!". It is just preposterous, and only shows the desperation of people who try to defend Israel's constant, US supported and financed crimes, since there is just no defense. All you can do is change the discussion and deflect.
And these arguments are all the more ridiculous right now, as the US and Israel and mas killing men women and children in two countries, throwing the entire world into turmoil, all while the genocide in Gaza and the apartheid driven attacks in the West Bank continue without a pause.
What's more, these nonstop violent actions do not make Israel any more safe does not make the US safe, and i presents a danger to all people everywhere.
Your fake concern for the people of Iran is really pretty sickening. The women of Iran are being incinerated and blown to bits by the US and Israel...same as the women in Gaza and the West Bank, and in Lebanon. It is pure cynicism to pretend this war has anything to do with protecting the citizens of any of these places, or to pretend that the US or Israeli leaders give a shit about Iranian lives, or Lebanese lives, or Palestinian lives...
Then you go on to the same tired nonsense about hiding in schools....i suppose they were hiding that the girls. school where 180 kids were murdered?
In all of your rants, you can't say one word to actually defend or even explain why its ok for the US and Israel to kills hundreds of thousands of people this century across the region...why its ok for the US and Israel to kill more journalists than in any other conflict anywhere this century, why its ok to cerate more child amputees in Gaza than anywhere else, why apartheid in the West Bank is ok, why Israel, with US help, kills people in Gaza and in Lebanon every single day during the so-called 'ceasefire'.
The 'bizarre obsession' is your covert defense for mass murder and mass subjugation. Your 'arguments' are ridiculous and patently weak, and I won't waste any more time talking to someone so willfully blind, who is so willing to justify a series of wars that has killed up to a million men, women and children with nonstop whataboutism and defelction.
No control of the Congress! No control of the SCOTUS! No control of the mainstream media! No control of the main social media, "X" and TikTok!
Chamberlain met with Hitler, who assured him he was on the Brits side!
"Appeasement is most often used to describe the response of British policy makers to the rise of Nazi Germany in the 1930s. It is seen as a policy of one-sided concessions to an aggressor state, often at the expense of third parties, with nothing offered in return except promises of better behaviour in the future."-HistoryExtra
We on this site recognize that we are repeating history in our country. And at this point, we are limited in what we can do to stop that process. It does appear that the mid-terms are the only remaining vehicle to stop the progress of the ultra-right religious fascists residing in both the US and Israel. In the States, we have lost our ability to govern democratically, and Israel has finally been allowed and supported in its desire to expand control, "From the river to the sea!" In between, there is the unconcerned slaughter of humanity!
Only through a completely united and unrelenting zeal, much like that exhibited by Churchill with Hitler, can we survive this onslaught! In our country, theJewish population must decide who and what they support. Do they remain supporting the Trump/Netanyahu nazi behavior, or do they support the democracy of the United States? People of Christian faith must also make the same decision; do they support American democracy, or do they support a fascist style government?
The cards are on the table, and we all can see the Three Card Monty laid out and the hustler hovering over the game! We see that as bystanders, but the one who lays down money on the table is distracted by the hustler at the last minute and loses every time! We must find a way to communicate these choices to those who do not read these columns!
I am not so assured since plenty of Democrats have been incredibly tepid in their response.
Many have resorted only to protesting the process, rather than the actual result.
Not to mention that many of these same Democrats not only did nothing to stop the US/ISrael genocide of Gaza, but they actively supported it, and continue to do so.
The Iranian regime was responsible for killing thousands of their own Muslim people in January who were protesting against the government. No one has clean hands in this mess.
Any notion that the US and Israel are carpet bombing Iran in order to protect its citizens is of course complete nonsense...not to mention the direct responsibility this aliiance has in the development of Iran's current oppressive theocracy, going back to 1953, through the Iraq war, and so many years of bombings and assassinations. The US and Israel could not care less about democracy in Iran.
Still, as I said above, there is no comparison. the US/Israel alliance has killed a million people in the Middle East and north Africa just in this century.
The genocide in Gaza has resulted in over 100,000 deaths easily, once all the bodies are pulled from the rubble and all the deaths are counted..and it' still going on. This alone is one of the most horrendous atrocities anywhere in the world this century,
Agree-US and Israel couldn't care less about Democracy in Iran. They don't even care about democracy in their own countries! Trump and BiBi-- spin spin spin spin. Stay out of jail.
There is no genocide in Gaza. 100,000 deaths? You false numbers are worse than Hama's. Once, again, where were your posts when the Iranian regime murdered tens of thousands of their own people this year. Nada from you. And that was just in a couple of days. And you elevate the Gaza deaths and never mention the Iranian deaths. What a hypocritical stance. The US/Israeli alliance has killed a million people? Show us the facts. To me, you are no different than tRump. You make up numbers to suit your hate of Israel.
Jason, once again you erroneously use the word genocide for Gaza. But that's who you are. You also omit the reason for the Israeli strikes in Lebanon. Hezbollah has been lobbing missiles and sending drones into Israel. You also omit the fact that Muslims have murdered and continue to murder hundreds of thousands of Jews and Christians around the world. One more fact, Hamas's charter states that its goal is to commit genocide against Jews worldwide. Lastly, Hamas continually breaks ceasefires with Israel.
It's worth remembering that Trump 1.0 negotiated directly with the Taliban, bypassing the elected Afghan government, to withdraw US troops. The Biden administration negotiated an extension of the withdrawal timetable and spent months begging Americans in Afghanistan to leave before the troop withdrawal. Did Trump 2.0 do anything of the sort? No, he wanted "shock and awe" for his war of choice and never mind about civilians and US citizens trapped in 14 (!) countries.
Afghanistan and Iran are apples and oranges. Trump STARTED this war without adequate planning or preparation! In the case of Afghanistan, we were LOSING the war and in retreat. Look at the retreat from Vietnam for another example of abandoning a lost cause. And in Afghanistan, the lives were lost from a terrorist attack, something hard to defend against even in the best of circumstances. And those lives represented only a third of those likely to have been lost in one year if we continued fighting. Not to minimize them, but that's the fact. Finally, several things Trump did re Afghanistan in his first term set us up for a disorganized retreat -- e.g. Stephen Miller obstructing the process of getting our allied Afghanis out, Trump releasing Taliban soldiers, Trump setting the timeline. Republicans have completely abdicated their role in government and own everything Trump does in his incompetence. At least Biden was getting us out of a failed war, something that eluded Trump and Obama before him. For that he gets my appreciation. It wasn't going to get any better or easier or safer if we had stayed.
thank you. It's still hard for people to keep from blaming Biden. To actually point out areas he did well or did as well as possible, is good to read. I continue to be angry about the dearth of news re his economic plans to enhance the wealth of the middle class. Only when it was too late did I see articles about that in the Post after a strong one in the New Yorker.
Seems possible that if more people were willing to point out what was better in the Biden term the Magats would be enraged and afraid.
The Republican party has outdone itself. We are at war with virtually the entire world. Heading headlong into a depression and just waiting for the next pandemic while millions of Americans needlessly suffer without adequate healthcare. American democracy undergoing frontal attack while corruption goes completely unchecked.
Not imcompetence, indifference. The Monster doesn't care about anything other than pleasuring & enriching himself. He doesn't and never has cared about any other human being. He is EVIL and always has been. Let's stop evaluating the Monster's behavior as if he had any interest in performing the Constitutional responsibilities of a President of the United States or of emulating the behavior of any normal, decent human being.
It got to that point on January 6th, 2021. The MAGA Majority in Congress and the voters who put him back in the WH are accessories to treason (or insurrection).
With only this war, the Trump administration has likely initiated World War III, a worldwide recession, possibly a nuclear incident, terrorism unlimited in both time and location, spiraling national debt, and who know what else. And Trump criticized Biden’s handling of Afghanistan.
Thank you, Debbie. Trump screwed up our withdrawal from Afghanistan (ETTD!) and left Biden holding the bag, and taking the blame.
Check out this Aug. 2024 Newsweek article:
Donald Trump Holds Responsibility for Afghanistan Withdraw, Ex-Adviser Says
Retired Army Lieutenant General H.R. McMaster, a former national security adviser to ex-President Donald Trump, says Trump bears at least some of the blame for the botched U.S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan.
As a retired carpenter, this is what I call "hitting the nail on the head".
"Trump and his arrogant yes-men will never admit error, let alone apologize; Republicans on the Hill will not stir themselves to do their jobs. It will be up to the voters to throw out every elected Republican and force removal of the architects of this catastrophe. Until that happens, Americans here and abroad will needlessly suffer and die."
And the legacy media is failing in a major way to deliver all of the news that we need to be well informed and current as to what is happening. The "free press" has been bought and corrupted.
I just wish the rest of the world would bombard their own leaders to demand that they stop their coddling tolerance of our president. We all know how ruthlessly despotic Iran's leadership has been, most of all to their own people. That did not justify our unlawful war and the war crimes we're committing. The leaders of every country we're in any way allied with should be demanding an end of this barbarity. Sanction the US. Boycott our products. Expel our diplomats. Maybe impose tariffs? :)
The media is entirely complicit in this debacle and it's beyond frustrating. For example, looking at the NYT today if you stay outside of the opinions section it is basically crickets on criticism besides economic concerns. There is virtually nothing on Epstein,, nothing on stranded citizens, nothing about the decades of health damage to civilians the massive attacks on oil depots will cause, and most importantly not a single article suggesting Trump is too old or unfit to be president. Every single headline mutates his incoherent words and policies into a sane washed "best guess" of a coherent policy to sell to their audience while with Biden if felt like every article was an attempt to find the angle that would hurt democrats or portray them as in disarray. And this is the NYT, I can only imagine what is going on in the further right cesspools right now.
The final paragraph is the only one that its worth reading: the problem is that we as a citizenry are utterly powerless to stop this escalating sh*t show and being forced to wait until November (actually January when the new Congress will be seated). We have no capacity to force the Dear Leader's minions and his lap-jackals in Congress to do anything.
The sizable portion of our citizenry who are MAGA do have that ability, by becoming outraged and writing to their Congress people saying “stop this immediately or you are fired!” But they do not because they are in a cult. I find this to be incredibly depressing.
Me too. Also distressing, appalling, disgusting, incomprehensible. We could have had a highly qualified and competent president but the stupids, the misogynists, and the racists decided that a convicted felon grifter piece of sh*te was a better choice.
Thank you again for your clarity, Jen. This regime is full of cruel, corrupt, incompetent death dealers. Anyone waiting for more evidence of how much WE need regime change isn't paying attention, or has completely lost the plot-- of what it means to be human.
Agreed. And it should be understood that this is both incompetence and cruelty. Because I think it is simultaneously true that the Trump administration lacks both the competence and the interest in having rescued Americans from the war zone. Simply put, they don't care.
"It will be up to the voters to throw out every elected Republican and force the removal of the architects of this catastrophe. Until that happens, Americans here and abroad will needlessly suffer and die." Is this the only choice citizens have? Can March 28 peace demo do something? It is too long to wait till next year January.
I appreciate and thank you for your correct and righteous outrage. I am afraid that I believe their whole strategy is to burn the house down. This fits that. Also with no strategy for removing people from the war zone there are no awkward photos of American aircraft evacuating people. Just the war glory bombing stuff even if it is children’s schools.
Americans being trapped are of course just one of the many terrible consequences of this illegal, unjustified carnage by the US/Israel alliance.
The massacre of 180 schoolchildren is an obvious war crime. The bombing of an oil refinery in Tehran, covering the city with acrid black smoke, acid rain and oil droplets from the sky, is an abomination of epic proportions. Many schools and hospitals in Iran have already been bombed. The death toll is certainly far higher than the 1300+ now accounted for.
It is clear now more than ever that it is the US/Israel alliance, not Iran, that is the primary driver of destabilization and violence in the Middle East. The alliance's genocide in Gaza still continues, and now the alliance is carpet bombing a city more dense than New York while bombing another country's capital (Beirut).
Both of the 'ceasefires' in Gaza and Lebanon did not result in a single day free of US/Israeli bombing and killing in either region.
It shouldn't surprise anyone that, since there was no consequence whatsoever for the onslaught in Gaza and the escalation of apartheid in the West Bank, this alliance would continue on the same path.
The US/Israel alliance has killed hundreds of thousands of Muslims in the Middle East this century. That number is very likely close to a million men, women and children killed. And now, that number is increasing every hour.
We Americans will pay for this carnage. The next 9/11 is probably incubating in the countries we’ve bombed. Meanwhile, this administration has directed agencies away from national security to terrorizing American cities.
Well said, Katina. Prof. Timothy Snyder wrote a piece on his Substack yesterday that scared the hell out of me. It is a dire warning, and all Americans should read it.
The Desire for Terror
And the defense of democracy
https://snyder.substack.com/p/the-desire-for-terror?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
Thank you for this link. I read it. Scary indeed. I think it's gotten to the point where "treasonous" is an apt adjective for this gang of destructors.
We may pay for it....I am not sure though, since the US and Israel have been completely unaccountable for the genocide in Gaza thus far. But yes, some sort of backlash will likely come sooner or later.
The people in Iran are now paying for it, every second of every day. the people in the Occupied territories have never stopped paying for it for generations. The families of people the US/ISraeli alliance have killed across the Middle East and Africa continue to pay for it too.
You now have thrown Africa into the mix. Muslims run rampant through African murdering civilians on a daily basis. They kidnap and rape girls then force them to convert to Islam.
I 'have thrown Africa into the mix' because the US has been bombing countries in north Africa and beyond for decades now, as well as across the Middle East. Almost always, these bombings are directed at Muslim populations.
No matter how much the defenders of US/Israeli led genocide and apartheid deny it, the fact remains that no alliance has killed, maimed raped, tortured, abducted and displaced Muslims like the BFFs the US and Israel.
The terrorism inflicted by these two countries together is just staggering.
Just this past week, the US has committed one of its single largest massacres of civilians in the post-Vietnam era (the other competitors were also, of course, perpetuated on Muslims, like the US attack on Iran Flight 655 in 1988 that killed 290 people). The destruction of oil depots in Tehran by Israel is the single largest chemical weapon attack this century.
No whataboutism can cover up the fact that the US and Israel are guilty of unspeakable war crimes, which they both continue to commit with gusto and fervor as you read this.
I absolutely agree with you. The Saudis were responsible for 9/11, but who coerced the stupid Oval goon into attacking? The Saudis look the innocents of course. It will only be a matter of time until some major American target gets it, and gets it big.
Jason the toxic oil plumes kept me up last night. Thank you for not letting us forget. Gotta reach deeper and fight back.
It’s keeping me up too. It’s purely apocalyptic.
I doubt they've killed only Muslims, though that's hideous enough.
That is true of course. Plenty of non Muslims have also been killed by the US and Israel this century. I would wager that in the Middle East and North Africa, the majority have been Muslims.
The level of devastation in Gaza has served to numb the average taxpayer to further war crime actions, like the bombing of a school.
A BBC statement yesterday indicated that the war will end when israel determines, that's why our regime can't answer any questions about the scope of this excursion and likely why they keep tossing random reasons for the instigation in the first place. We have subsumed our national interests for another nation's and it is not going to serve us in the long run.
I agree, but would add that in addition to being numbed, the fact that no one in the US nor Israel has been held accountable at all for the genocide in Gaza has led directly to more carnage.
The US/Israeli alliance now feels it can just do what it wants, and not without reason.
You care not one iota for the Jewish lives lost throughout the world. Also, where were you when the Iranian regime murdered tens of thousands of Iranians in February ? Where were you when they murdered and mutilated women for not covering up? You posted nada. No Jews, no news!
More whataboutism...Do you have a clue what has been happening the past week, the past year, the past decade?
Israel and the US couldn't care less about the Iranian government's oppression against its own people. Not only have the policies of both countries directly play a part in the current status of Iran, going back to 1953 and before that, it is pure comedy to consider that either country gives 'one iota' about democracy or peace in Iran as both countries mass slaughter its residents.
But yes, your deep concern for Muslims is noted...all those women you care about are now being blown to pieces and showered with acid rain because of the governments you defend...just as they are in Gaza..in Lebanon..in the West Bank....as they were in Iraq..in Afghanistan....
You have a bizarre obsession with Israel. Additionally, you don't care one iota about Christian and Jews. You only care about Muslims, omitting that Muslim have committed more crimes against Jews, Christians and their own people than any other country. You never mention the crimes committed by Hamas and Hezbollah against Jews. Finally, the Lebanese may just get their country back. Iranian proxy, Hezbollah, has ruined that country. Syria doesn't want that terrorist group. They have stationed soldiers at the border with Lebanon to keep Hezbollah from escaping into Syria.
Your zealous ideology has no room for the women of Iran, nor for any Iranian. Why do you think the Iranian soldiers are hiding out in hospitals, apartment buildings, hospitals, sport centers? Why did Hamas hide out in hospitals, apartment buildings, churches, schools? Why did Hamas build tunnels under every building where civilians are? They love it when thousands of their people die because then people like you blame Israel. Why does Hamas steal food? Because people like you blame Israel.
You say so much nonsense here, I can't really reply to it all.
Start with the fact that Israel is a country, not a religion, and the US has a relationship with Israel like no other, by a long shot. This is clear as day to anyone with even a speck of critical thinking skills.
Iran is not the top recipient of US aid. The US does not block resolutions against Iran in the UN constantly. The US does not host the leaders of Iran in the White House, does not invite them to address Congress...
And , right now, anyone with a functioning brain can see this war is fully a joint US/Israel operation. Our own Secretary of State said clearly the US entered the war because of Israel. Is there any other country on Earth that the US has this kind of relationship? Of course not.
This is, obvious, why so many Americans are appalled by the actions of the US /Israeli alliance...because our country is directly responsible for these crimes. The US is not sending billions of dollars worth of bombs to Iran. Your entire argument rests on a completely ridiculous premise. Where is your mention of Israel's crimes? You constantly repat yourself saying essentially that no criticism of Israel is valid unless every other crimes by everyone else is criticized too. Forget that it's the US and Israel that constantly invade and bomb and occupy other countries, not the other way around. Forget that millions of people live with no rights under blockades and bombs and apartheid under Israel with the US help. For get that both Israel and the US have no problem doing business with rich Arab vassal states that are repressive to their populations when it suits their interests.
When a person says they are concerned about one thing, that does not mean that person isn't concerned about anything else. This is another just ridiculous whataboutism argument. It is like the person who shows up at a rally against breast cancer and yells 'what about lung cancer? You don't even care!". It is just preposterous, and only shows the desperation of people who try to defend Israel's constant, US supported and financed crimes, since there is just no defense. All you can do is change the discussion and deflect.
And these arguments are all the more ridiculous right now, as the US and Israel and mas killing men women and children in two countries, throwing the entire world into turmoil, all while the genocide in Gaza and the apartheid driven attacks in the West Bank continue without a pause.
What's more, these nonstop violent actions do not make Israel any more safe does not make the US safe, and i presents a danger to all people everywhere.
Your fake concern for the people of Iran is really pretty sickening. The women of Iran are being incinerated and blown to bits by the US and Israel...same as the women in Gaza and the West Bank, and in Lebanon. It is pure cynicism to pretend this war has anything to do with protecting the citizens of any of these places, or to pretend that the US or Israeli leaders give a shit about Iranian lives, or Lebanese lives, or Palestinian lives...
Then you go on to the same tired nonsense about hiding in schools....i suppose they were hiding that the girls. school where 180 kids were murdered?
In all of your rants, you can't say one word to actually defend or even explain why its ok for the US and Israel to kills hundreds of thousands of people this century across the region...why its ok for the US and Israel to kill more journalists than in any other conflict anywhere this century, why its ok to cerate more child amputees in Gaza than anywhere else, why apartheid in the West Bank is ok, why Israel, with US help, kills people in Gaza and in Lebanon every single day during the so-called 'ceasefire'.
The 'bizarre obsession' is your covert defense for mass murder and mass subjugation. Your 'arguments' are ridiculous and patently weak, and I won't waste any more time talking to someone so willfully blind, who is so willing to justify a series of wars that has killed up to a million men, women and children with nonstop whataboutism and defelction.
No control of the Congress! No control of the SCOTUS! No control of the mainstream media! No control of the main social media, "X" and TikTok!
Chamberlain met with Hitler, who assured him he was on the Brits side!
"Appeasement is most often used to describe the response of British policy makers to the rise of Nazi Germany in the 1930s. It is seen as a policy of one-sided concessions to an aggressor state, often at the expense of third parties, with nothing offered in return except promises of better behaviour in the future."-HistoryExtra
We on this site recognize that we are repeating history in our country. And at this point, we are limited in what we can do to stop that process. It does appear that the mid-terms are the only remaining vehicle to stop the progress of the ultra-right religious fascists residing in both the US and Israel. In the States, we have lost our ability to govern democratically, and Israel has finally been allowed and supported in its desire to expand control, "From the river to the sea!" In between, there is the unconcerned slaughter of humanity!
Only through a completely united and unrelenting zeal, much like that exhibited by Churchill with Hitler, can we survive this onslaught! In our country, theJewish population must decide who and what they support. Do they remain supporting the Trump/Netanyahu nazi behavior, or do they support the democracy of the United States? People of Christian faith must also make the same decision; do they support American democracy, or do they support a fascist style government?
The cards are on the table, and we all can see the Three Card Monty laid out and the hustler hovering over the game! We see that as bystanders, but the one who lays down money on the table is distracted by the hustler at the last minute and loses every time! We must find a way to communicate these choices to those who do not read these columns!
I am not so assured since plenty of Democrats have been incredibly tepid in their response.
Many have resorted only to protesting the process, rather than the actual result.
Not to mention that many of these same Democrats not only did nothing to stop the US/ISrael genocide of Gaza, but they actively supported it, and continue to do so.
No genocide in Gaza. Only in your reality.
You may but that doesn't make it so.
The Iranian regime was responsible for killing thousands of their own Muslim people in January who were protesting against the government. No one has clean hands in this mess.
Any notion that the US and Israel are carpet bombing Iran in order to protect its citizens is of course complete nonsense...not to mention the direct responsibility this aliiance has in the development of Iran's current oppressive theocracy, going back to 1953, through the Iraq war, and so many years of bombings and assassinations. The US and Israel could not care less about democracy in Iran.
Still, as I said above, there is no comparison. the US/Israel alliance has killed a million people in the Middle East and north Africa just in this century.
The genocide in Gaza has resulted in over 100,000 deaths easily, once all the bodies are pulled from the rubble and all the deaths are counted..and it' still going on. This alone is one of the most horrendous atrocities anywhere in the world this century,
Agree-US and Israel couldn't care less about Democracy in Iran. They don't even care about democracy in their own countries! Trump and BiBi-- spin spin spin spin. Stay out of jail.
There is no genocide in Gaza. 100,000 deaths? You false numbers are worse than Hama's. Once, again, where were your posts when the Iranian regime murdered tens of thousands of their own people this year. Nada from you. And that was just in a couple of days. And you elevate the Gaza deaths and never mention the Iranian deaths. What a hypocritical stance. The US/Israeli alliance has killed a million people? Show us the facts. To me, you are no different than tRump. You make up numbers to suit your hate of Israel.
Jason, once again you erroneously use the word genocide for Gaza. But that's who you are. You also omit the reason for the Israeli strikes in Lebanon. Hezbollah has been lobbing missiles and sending drones into Israel. You also omit the fact that Muslims have murdered and continue to murder hundreds of thousands of Jews and Christians around the world. One more fact, Hamas's charter states that its goal is to commit genocide against Jews worldwide. Lastly, Hamas continually breaks ceasefires with Israel.
It's worth remembering that Trump 1.0 negotiated directly with the Taliban, bypassing the elected Afghan government, to withdraw US troops. The Biden administration negotiated an extension of the withdrawal timetable and spent months begging Americans in Afghanistan to leave before the troop withdrawal. Did Trump 2.0 do anything of the sort? No, he wanted "shock and awe" for his war of choice and never mind about civilians and US citizens trapped in 14 (!) countries.
I never blamed Biden for the bad withdrawl from Afghanistan....I blame the generals, would they not be in charge of how to do it ? I believe so.
I agree.
yes, but Biden would not have come up with the actual plan nor would djt ! picture that
Afghanistan and Iran are apples and oranges. Trump STARTED this war without adequate planning or preparation! In the case of Afghanistan, we were LOSING the war and in retreat. Look at the retreat from Vietnam for another example of abandoning a lost cause. And in Afghanistan, the lives were lost from a terrorist attack, something hard to defend against even in the best of circumstances. And those lives represented only a third of those likely to have been lost in one year if we continued fighting. Not to minimize them, but that's the fact. Finally, several things Trump did re Afghanistan in his first term set us up for a disorganized retreat -- e.g. Stephen Miller obstructing the process of getting our allied Afghanis out, Trump releasing Taliban soldiers, Trump setting the timeline. Republicans have completely abdicated their role in government and own everything Trump does in his incompetence. At least Biden was getting us out of a failed war, something that eluded Trump and Obama before him. For that he gets my appreciation. It wasn't going to get any better or easier or safer if we had stayed.
thank you. It's still hard for people to keep from blaming Biden. To actually point out areas he did well or did as well as possible, is good to read. I continue to be angry about the dearth of news re his economic plans to enhance the wealth of the middle class. Only when it was too late did I see articles about that in the Post after a strong one in the New Yorker.
Seems possible that if more people were willing to point out what was better in the Biden term the Magats would be enraged and afraid.
The Republican party has outdone itself. We are at war with virtually the entire world. Heading headlong into a depression and just waiting for the next pandemic while millions of Americans needlessly suffer without adequate healthcare. American democracy undergoing frontal attack while corruption goes completely unchecked.
This isn't a government, it's a regime.
This isn't a government, it's a criminal gang of barbarians.
That actually, is a lot closer to an accurate description, though a regime can be comprised of barbarians.
Not imcompetence, indifference. The Monster doesn't care about anything other than pleasuring & enriching himself. He doesn't and never has cared about any other human being. He is EVIL and always has been. Let's stop evaluating the Monster's behavior as if he had any interest in performing the Constitutional responsibilities of a President of the United States or of emulating the behavior of any normal, decent human being.
Incompetence AND indifference.
It's gotten to the point where I would add treasonous.
It got to that point on January 6th, 2021. The MAGA Majority in Congress and the voters who put him back in the WH are accessories to treason (or insurrection).
I agree.
One could argue that the incompetence is intentional and/or a necessary consequence. No competent person would let Trump blunder on.
Kinda reminds me of Don the Con's first term and the vote to repeal Obamacare. Don was quoted as saying "who knew health care was so complicated?!"
Well, the answer to that question is "Apparently, everyone but you-- you effin' idiot"
With only this war, the Trump administration has likely initiated World War III, a worldwide recession, possibly a nuclear incident, terrorism unlimited in both time and location, spiraling national debt, and who know what else. And Trump criticized Biden’s handling of Afghanistan.
Thank you, Debbie. Trump screwed up our withdrawal from Afghanistan (ETTD!) and left Biden holding the bag, and taking the blame.
Check out this Aug. 2024 Newsweek article:
Donald Trump Holds Responsibility for Afghanistan Withdraw, Ex-Adviser Says
Retired Army Lieutenant General H.R. McMaster, a former national security adviser to ex-President Donald Trump, says Trump bears at least some of the blame for the botched U.S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan.
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-responsible-afghanistan-withdraw-ex-adviser-1944696
bankrupt 6 times...
There has not been a peaceful day for any sentient person in this country since January 19, 2025. This disruptive President has made sure of that.
As a retired carpenter, this is what I call "hitting the nail on the head".
"Trump and his arrogant yes-men will never admit error, let alone apologize; Republicans on the Hill will not stir themselves to do their jobs. It will be up to the voters to throw out every elected Republican and force removal of the architects of this catastrophe. Until that happens, Americans here and abroad will needlessly suffer and die."
The rest of the world is praying that the American people vote OUT every single Republican in every single office.
And those will be prayers unanswered. Too many millions of stupid people in this country who will never ever vote with their heads.
And the legacy media is failing in a major way to deliver all of the news that we need to be well informed and current as to what is happening. The "free press" has been bought and corrupted.
I just wish the rest of the world would bombard their own leaders to demand that they stop their coddling tolerance of our president. We all know how ruthlessly despotic Iran's leadership has been, most of all to their own people. That did not justify our unlawful war and the war crimes we're committing. The leaders of every country we're in any way allied with should be demanding an end of this barbarity. Sanction the US. Boycott our products. Expel our diplomats. Maybe impose tariffs? :)
Under Rubio's non-leadership the state department has one and only one mission which is to keep the Fuhrer happy.
The attack on Iran is the stupidest, most inexplicable military exercise of all time.
Indeed it is, and right up there with the WMD that never were that took us into Iraq.
And I’m waiting for the next shoe to drop in Cuba.
The media is entirely complicit in this debacle and it's beyond frustrating. For example, looking at the NYT today if you stay outside of the opinions section it is basically crickets on criticism besides economic concerns. There is virtually nothing on Epstein,, nothing on stranded citizens, nothing about the decades of health damage to civilians the massive attacks on oil depots will cause, and most importantly not a single article suggesting Trump is too old or unfit to be president. Every single headline mutates his incoherent words and policies into a sane washed "best guess" of a coherent policy to sell to their audience while with Biden if felt like every article was an attempt to find the angle that would hurt democrats or portray them as in disarray. And this is the NYT, I can only imagine what is going on in the further right cesspools right now.
News media always promote war. War is very profitable.
The final paragraph is the only one that its worth reading: the problem is that we as a citizenry are utterly powerless to stop this escalating sh*t show and being forced to wait until November (actually January when the new Congress will be seated). We have no capacity to force the Dear Leader's minions and his lap-jackals in Congress to do anything.
The sizable portion of our citizenry who are MAGA do have that ability, by becoming outraged and writing to their Congress people saying “stop this immediately or you are fired!” But they do not because they are in a cult. I find this to be incredibly depressing.
Me too. Also distressing, appalling, disgusting, incomprehensible. We could have had a highly qualified and competent president but the stupids, the misogynists, and the racists decided that a convicted felon grifter piece of sh*te was a better choice.