You can count me among the Americans worried and alarmed by all the military bluster coming from our so-called leader. To some extent, we got a warning that the strike on Iran was imminent during the martial event on June 14; the marching soldiers and rumbling tanks were an autocratic show of force. Trump’s parade of power, his pernicious showcase, was a harbinger of deadly bombs and missiles.
We can now regretfully set aside all the diplomatic chatter about the nonproliferation of nuclear weapons, with no real knowledge of Iran’s capability and, even now, whether the “bunker buster bombs” were effective. The Middle East remains a riddle, a political Rubik’s cube of how to deal with countries so entangled, so violently at odds that treaties and resolutions fall far short of peace and harmony.
Even more troubling is the extent to which the crisis in the Middle East has global ramifications — that the bombs dropped on Iran may precipitate a larger conflagration of turmoil, triggering the volatile entry of other nations interested in mayhem and mischief.
So much is still a mystery. We may never know the real truth of Iran’s nuclear condition. Are we headed for another botched misinformation campaign about weapons of mass destruction that imperiled Iraq? Ever since the tragedy of 1953, when a democratically elected leader was toppled by the U.S.’s CIA, Iran has been in the crosshairs of the American government, to say nothing of the Iran-Contra affair finagled by members of the Reagan administration.
The rumor of war is invariably followed by a rumor of a ceasefire, which is now making the rounds. Even if an agreement is made between Israel and Iran, what role will the U.S play in the settlement? There also remains the level of control Iran holds over their surrogates in Yemen, Lebanon, and even the wounded combatants in Syria.
Oh, and we shouldn’t forget the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine or Hamas in Gaza.
I think you get how muddled and desperate the situation is in the land of Jews, Arabs, and now the intrusion of a nondenominational Christian.
