As I write this column, it is day one and two of what threatens to be a  new “forever war, ” an enterprise both evil and stupid, launched by the US and Israel against Iran.

American bombs are falling on Teheran, and Iran’s rockets have been launched toward  American linked targets across the region, with strikes reported  on the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, and of course Israel. The 200 casualties reported in the early stages of attack on Teheran will only be a down payment on the butcher’s bill that will be paid before this hideous business is resolved. Already reports are emerging from Iran that the joint US/Israeli bombing has hit a girl’s school, killing around a hundred children. This will not be the last “collateral damage” we’ll see during this nightmare.

While hailed by Trump as yet another of his unique achievements, this war threatens to be at least as destructive as the spasms of imperial over- reach that occurred during America’s attacks on Iraq and Afghanistan. (Gee, I wonder why Trump didn’t get the Nobel Peace Prize this winter- maybe now the world and the Nobel committee  will be ready to praise his brilliant strategies of blood and iron peacemaking. If not, I imagine that His Orangeness will be bombing Stockholm soon. There is, after all, a limit to how much unfairness he should have to endure.)

While Trump’s rank and........

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