Valuable commentary about Trump's decision to bomb Iran continues to unfold. With this posting, I'm going to begin a new thread of commentary on this topic, since the previous one had gotten long.
In a statement entitled "Bombing God's Love," Brian Kaylor calls on Bob Dylan as a witness that
"Dropping bombs on people doesn’t count as loving God."
Though Trump invoked the name of God several times after annoucing he had bombed Iran….
Oliver Markus Malloy also invokes the bible — but to characterize Putin, Trump, Netanyahu, and Musk as the four horsemen of the apocalypse.
And that sounds about right to me.
https://www.malloy.rocks/p/putin-trump-netanyahu-and-elon-musk
"Today we are at war, because we never learn.
Trump involving our troops in yet another Mideast War is the most Republican thing ever. The blood-thirsty GOP and the presidents they choose, have a sickening fixation with the Mideast, and mostly all that oil, and don’t care how many lives — Americans or otherwise — they have to incinerate to get it."
~ D. Earl Stephens
"Let’s not allow the typical reflexive impulse to stand with a president in times of war cloud our thinking now. This reckless behavior is just the latest effort of an immunized despot to follow his whims, consolidate power and feed his fragile ego."
~ Steven Beschloss
https://www.americaamerica.news/p/trump-unilaterally-bombs-iran
Characterizing her uncle as "the worst person at the worst time," Trump's niece Mary Trump advises us not to look for deep or rational motives in Trump's decision to attack Iran. It's about his fragile ego:
"He is driven by the most primitive impulses that center almost solely around protecting his fragile ego from humiliation (about which he has a pathological terror) and himself from the reality that he is a complete fraud."
https://www.marytrump.org/p/the-worst-person-at-the-worst-time
"Jewish tradition, like most other moral traditions, has some version of the idea of 'what goes around comes around.' In Hebrew, it’s, 'midah k'neged midah.' And you are creating a world in which these things will be more normalized, and sooner or later they're not just done to nameless, faceless Iranians who you don't know anything about and don't care about, but they get done to you, and that's the world that you're creating."
~ Peter Beinart
https://peterbeinart.substack.com/p/the-media-is-asking-the-wrong-questions
Even if it sets back Tehran’s nuclear program. Even if Iran doesn’t seriously retaliate. It’s still incredibly dangerous, and wrong.
Zeteo offers a helpful digest of recent discussions, commentary, and analysis (with links) about the war of Israel and the US, of Netanyahu and Trump, against Iran.
"Trump has no strategy. Not in Iran, and not anywhere else. ...
His primary motive is to make sure that, in any given encounter, he is 'winning.' This is the philosophy that determines his policy on Russia, on tariffs, on Harvard, or on deportations: not what’s good for America, but what’s good for Trump."
~ Anne Applebaum
"The Iranians have already declared that they will close the Straits of Hormuz, through which a quarter of the world’s oil flows. Gas prices will skyrocket, just to start. The risk of jihadist terrorism has been massively increased, while Trump has dismantled many of the government’s protections against sabotage, cyberattacks and terrorism, or put people like this 22-year-old lawn mower [Thomas Fugate] in charge."
~ Jim Stewartson
"The risks of poorly considered and unilateral decisions by the White House are devastating, risking thousands—if not millions—of deaths. The Founders gave us tools to prevent that sort of outcome."
~ Ben Raderstorf
https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/trumps-iran-strike-shows-the-urgent
"The strikes mark the U.S.’s official direct entry into the war, though the U.S. has provided Israel with support in its bombings on Iran and has also helped provide defense for Israel. The attacks come after politicians and war mongers in the U.S. have called for war with Iran for decades."
~ Sharon Zhang
https://truthout.org/articles/trump-bombs-iran-then-demands-iran-agree-to-end-the-war/
"Trump gave a shout-out to God for the bombings: 'I just want to thank everyone—in particular, God. We love you God.'
… Rep. Randy Fine (R-Tel Aviv): 'I believe God saved Donald Trump’s life so that he could save the world.'”
~ Ron Filipkowski
https://www.meidasplus.com/p/this-weekend-in-politics-bulletin-bf6
… After the US bombed nuclear sites in Iran, Joint Chiefs Chair Dan Caine gave a summary of the attack at a press conference this morning where he announced that over 125 US aircraft were involved, the lead B2 dropped two GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator bunker buster bombs on Fordo, other B2s dropped 14 MOPs against two other sites, and a US sub launched 24 Tomahawk missiles at the Isfahan.
"Trump, the isolationist president who vowed to avoid foreign wars, has walked slap bang into a trap prepared by Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu – a trap his smarter predecessors avoided. Netanyahu has constantly exaggerated the immediacy of the Iranian nuclear threat. His alarmist speeches on this subject go back 30 years."
~ Simon Tisdall
#Netanyahu #Trump #Iran #war
/13
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/22/donald-trump-usa-iran-israel-war-bombing
Trump has fallen slap bang into the trap laid for him by Netanyahu. His reckless gamble makes a nuclear weapon for Iran more, not less, likely, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdall
"Once again, the US has gone to war in the Middle East on the back of a lie, on disputed, probably faulty intelligence purposefully distorted for political reasons. Once again, as in Iraq in 2003, the overall objectives of the war are unclear, uncertain and open to interpretation by friend and foe alike. Once again, there appears to be no 'exit strategy', no guardrails against escalation and no plan for what happens next."
#Netanyahu #Trump #Iran #war
/14
"Netanyahu has practically made a career out of warning that Iran is years (or months) away from developing nukes. Over the past 30 years, he regularly issued some variation on this threat – and often wildly overestimated how close Iran was to having a bomb. …
And the people of the Middle East will pay the highest price for yet another reckless war built on a lie."
~ Mohamad Bazzi
#Netanyahu #Trump #Iran #war
/15
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/22/trump-iran-george-w-bush-netanyahu
"In rejecting diplomacy and choosing war, not only in breach of international law but at the behest of a country pursuing annihilation in Gaza, the US has delivered a resounding blow to the architecture of global affairs. It has signalled that countries that negotiate (Iran) face stark consequences, which those which rush to own the bomb (North Korea) can avoid."
~ The Guardian
#Netanyahu #Trump #Iran #war
/16
"I’m 45. This is the 3rd Republican President in my lifetime that has crashed the economy and started a war. I’m tired."
~ Dominique Heuermann
you want a political party that responds to you? get out and do the work to find/promote/elect such individuals to take over the party of your choice
not just talking to you -- and, thank you for your service
not assuming anything -- giving out general advice
if that is who you are, why try to discourage me, or act abused?
easier to put people we like in an established party than create a new one -- could be solved by rank choice voting
the real problem is not the parties, but the voters, mostly low info. and happy to believe the evils of the Dems are equal or worse than the propaganding Republicans, hooking into the religious right and the wealthy donors'
of course telling people without food to eat is just sarcasm
there is never just one solution
...Wow, I'm not sure if I'm more struck by your naïveté or your inability to recognize comparative language when you see it. In the latter case it seems like you mistook it for a non sequitur...
All complaints aside, though, I do agree that ranked choice voting is one of the necessary reforms if there's enough country left to reform at the end of all this — and that, at least, seems to have been making slow strides forward this century.
I think you think too highly of your own opinion
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