No.Nonsense.

I had planned to write today about the increasing discussions of attacking Iran and my feelings about the arguments. I woke to the news that overnight, that’s precisely what we did.

And we’ve started a war.

Iran is the top backer of terrorism in the world. They were the instigators of the October 7th attack, providing the resources for Hamas to attack Israel. They are horrific oppressors of their people, killing thousands even as the people rise up. They are evil.

And they will not back down, which means we are now at war.

I remember the 444 days in 1980 when they captured our embassy and held our citizens hostage. I met one of those hostages merely by chance many years later when visiting Washington, DC. That action was the impetus for overturning the government of that time, exiling the Shah who was the supreme leader, and elevating the Ayatollah. Since that time, they have held the Middle East and, by extension, the world, proverbially hostage with its support of worldwide terrorism.

With nuclear weapons, which they had spent decades trying to develop, they would be a major threat. Without them, they are nothing more than a bully with a bomb. Yes, they can do damage but they are not a global threat. Last June, in an amazing operation, we destroyed their nuclear development sites. Or at least that’s what we were told.

The reasoning today for our actions is that they were rebuilding that nuclear program and increasing their development of long-range and short-range missiles that threaten our partners in Europe.

The problem with this rationale is that our partners in Europe are not engaged in this mission with us. Only Israel will fight by our side. Israel, a nation I support, is misguided by its own warmongers who have escalated the rhetoric about the nuclear threat from Iran for decades with no evidence that the country indeed has achieved those weapons. And they have dragged us into their paranoid delusion. We have no other support from the world and fight on our own. We have potentially damaged our relationships throughout the world with this action.

As for the rise of the people in Iran to seek freedom, I cheer them on. But this is their fight, not ours. We can give them support but they have to do the fighting because they are the ones that will live with the results.

The United States is the one that is supposed to end wars, not start them. In instigating this attack with no precipitating event, we have become what we decry of them. We have become the terror. And that’s not who we are.

I pray this ends quickly. I pray we have minimal casualties. And I pray that someone in our government will wake the hell up and put a stop to this madness.