The U.S. has launched a major war without the input of the experts we pay to advise
the President on such matters.
The State Department, Pentagon, National Security Council staff, Defense Intelligence
Agency, and NSA were simply bypassed because, as White House spokesman Caroline Levitt
said, President Trump had a feeling Iran would attack.
The President's real estate developer son-in-law and friend reinforced that feeling when they
returned from the second round of talks with the Iranian Foreign Minister and his team.
However, as the news outlet responsible statecraft reported over the weekend both son-in-law
Jared Kushner and friend Steve Witkov appear to have misrepresented those talks in a way
that helped push President Trump's toward war.
No State Department officials were on hand to ensure the reporting was accurate.
Also, arms control experts at home, according to the R.S. report, believe that the duo
appeared to have fatally misunderstood a series of basic technical and historical matters
regarding Iran's nuclear programs leading to inaccurate information conveyed to the President.
Congress was completely out of the picture, seemingly uninterested in performing its
constitutional duty and no case was made to the American people that they must sacrifice
and die once again for a war in the Middle East.
Trump's repeated promises to not start new wars, especially in the Middle East, have
turned out to be empty, and Republicans are set for a crippling defeat in the upcoming
midterm elections.
Iran has been warning for months since the last U.S.-Israeli surprise attack in June
that if they were attacked again, they would not hold back on the U.S. bases in the region
and that they would close the straits of Hormuz.
Trump and Netanyahu attacked anyway, and Iran was done what it said it would do.
Now, the straits of Hormuz is closed, oil is about to go out of control, and the global economy,
along with the U.S. dollar, seems about to implode.
On March 6th, President Trump refused a U.K. offer of help, saying we don't need help
when we've already won the war.
Five days later, at a rally in Kentucky, President Trump repeated
that we've won the Iran war.
It was his mission accomplished a moment, because this weekend, just days after declaring victory
against an obliterated Iran, Trump began begging other countries to send ships
to help the U.S. open the straits of Hormuz.
Thus far, every country has declined, understanding that such a mission has little chance of success.
Tragically, the war thus far has claimed at least 14 service members.
It is likely the toll is far worse than they are telling us.
Every U.S. military facility in the region is either damaged or destroyed.
Billions of dollars of radar and other equipment are destroyed.
Our allies in the region, because they allowed their territory to be used to attack Iran,
have also seen massive retaliatory destruction.
This is surely one of the worst military disasters in U.S. history.
There are no military options available beyond the unthinkable, the use of nuclear weapons.
The only viable option that remains is one that was often urged in the Vietnam War.
Just get out.
Now, no return to U.S. bases, no security guarantees to Gulf states,
and the U.S. empire in the Middle East and elsewhere.
If not, it's only going to get worse.