
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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