It shouldn’t surprise us that President Donald Trump lied to the American people when he said “no new wars.” Trump is a pathological liar who cannot tell the truth. He lies numerous times a day on social media, press announcements, speeches, and interviews. According to the Bible, Trump’s perpetual lying will land him in Hell someday; not that I care. I am far more concerned about the HELL Trump is causing in this life.
Yesterday, Trump ordered the U.S. military to bomb Iran, this after Israel’s repeated bombings. Iran has weakly responded, causing little to no harm to Israel or the United States. Today, Trump announced a ceasefire between Iran and the United States/Israel. Peacock-proud as a big-dicked man at a nudist colony, Trump suggested in a social media post that “regime change” might be on the menu.
Here’s what David Packman had to say about Trump’s declaration of war:
Make no mistake about it, Trump and his administration have imperial ambitions, and that includes regime change for any country that dares to cross Trump’s rabid pursuit of raw power and wealth. You gotta know you are on the wrong side of history when former national security advisor John Bolton agrees with your course of action. Bolton has called for regime change in Iran for years.
Trump’s latest immoral, illegal bombing of Iran is a reminder that the “endless war” continues, with no end in sight. As long as the U.S. mainland remains untouched by the ravages of war, Americans will continue to approve of the “fighting them over there, so we don’t have to fight them here” endless war. Some day, though, our peace and tranquility will threatened by terrorist attacks. We can’t keep bullying people we disagree with without some sort of retaliation. As a young boy, I tried to catch a mouse that was in our garage. I chased him all over the garage until I finally cornered him. As I reached down to pick up the mouse, he bit me. There’s coming a day when the United States will corner an inferior enemy and, with no place to turn, our enemy will “bite” us.
Trump wrongly believes that violence against a nation deemed our enemy will bring peace. It won’t. Violence never brings peace. It brings a cessation of hostilities until the next war breaks out. Only peace begets peace. If the United States is truly interested in peace, nuclear disarmament is the first step in the process. It’s hypocritical for the United States to demand disarmament while refusing to do so themselves. It’s hypocritical to decry the possibility of Iran building and using a nuclear weapon when the United States is the only nation to ever use an atomic bomb on civilian population centers. Instead of demanding that the world do what the U.S. says and not what it does, perhaps peace would be better served if the United States led by example.
Bruce Gerencser, 68, lives in rural Northwest Ohio with his wife of 47 years. He and his wife have six grown children and sixteen grandchildren. Bruce pastored Evangelical churches for twenty-five years in Ohio, Texas, and Michigan. Bruce left the ministry in 2005, and in 2008 he left Christianity. Bruce is now a humanist and an atheist.
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Many think Trump is somehow deranged, while others believe he plays the media like a fiddle. He gets free exposure by baiting the press with seemingly reckless provocative utterances that simply MUST be reported. His face and whining voice MUST be put on camera. He is the perpetual train wreck that MUST be watched. It’s horrible but you can’t look away. Never mind whatever he says is unreliable and useless in terms of information or predicting anything.
Many call him a pathological liar. I submit that he is a professional phony and his mendacity has always been deliberate and calculated. It’s purposeful, performative lying. In spite of his many bankruptcies, convictions and failures, he presents himself as smart and successful. He has gaslighted enough voters to get himself elected. He’s not demented, just unusually devoid of shame or conscience. His main characteristic is his total selfish disregard for others. The only thing predictable about him is that he will do what serves him and his and others be damned. Best case scenario is enough voters letting go their illusions and flipping congress at the midterms. Two impeachments failed but a third time could be the charm.
Hi Bruce,
I posted this on another forum but felt it appropriate to add here as well:
There is an ongoing genocide in Gaza, S Lebanon is being reduced to rubble, and Israel just took out a significant % of Iranian military leadership and Scientific brain-trust in a sneak attack. Not to mention recently cleaning out Assad’s group in Syria. Then Trump drops MOAB’s or something similar on three Iranian sites.
How ANYONE seriously believes that the Shia’s that dominate Iran and their Shia proxies in other Middle Eastern countries are just going to go: Oh the American President says a 1,200 year conflict is over now, after “Pearl Harboring” Iran, well, those who believe that are DELUDING themselves.
Iran may want a break and will acquiesce to a temporary cease fire agreement, for a while, to plot revenge and to negotiate with Pakistan, Russia and China for military equipment, but if you don’t think there has not already been a call for “jihad” against Israel and the USA, well…… I beg to differ. This story is FAR from over. Study history.
I’m not saying I want that, no I don’t, but I’m not oblivious to the facts or as stupid as certain officials making idiotic policy decisions.
I never believed Drumpf and his promises,but I sure did believe his threats. No new wars my butt ! He must want to confront Iran again later, because the planes didn’t complete the job. Hegseth is so mad that the truth came out.
Bruce—To follow your story about the mouse: We have been “bitten.” Think of 9/11 and Pearl Harbor. Both episodes are directly related to American imperialism, which is as much about economic and political domination as it is about militarism. The US orchestrated regime changes and other kinds of disruption, through the CIA and other ostensibly civilian organizations, in Iran and other countries in the region and took Hawaii and other Pacific islands through means that are never discussed in American History classes.
We might also be “bitten” if Haiti or some other country in the Caribbean decides to align itself with China or Russia, as Cuba did. We have a pretty sordid history in that region-and in Africa.