The main reason I voted for President Trump in all three elections was because he kept saying he was the peace candidate. He repeated that refrain at his May 13 speech in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Five weeks later, on June 21, he attacked three nuclear sites in Iran without a declaration of war from the U.S. Congress, as is demanded in Article I, Section 8, Clause 11. He didn’t even get something like President George W. Bush’s Oct. 16, 2002 Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution. Although not a declaration of war, at least it involved Congress.
This time also there was no rush. Congress should have debated the most important issue involving any country, war.
It’s true Trump on the campaign trail, and in office again, promised to make sure Iran never would get a nuclear weapons. But the implication believed by naïve voters, including yours truly, was President “The Art of the Deal” would negotiate a deal.
That ended on June 13 with Israel’s surprise attack on Iran – right before U.S.-Iran talks scheduled for June 14-15. On the morning of the attack, Trump boasted to the Wall Street Journal, “Heads-up? It wasn’t a heads-up. It was, we know what’s going on.”
His excuse was his 60-day deadline for a deal ended the day before Israel’s strike. But who OKs a war over one day? Who will trust him again? And once you start a war, you lose control of it.
The fog of war remains thick. Trump exulted Sunday, “Obliteration is an accurate term!” But we don’t know. The Guardian that day reported, “Still, it remains unclear how much physical damage has been done or what the longer-term impact might be on Iran’s nuclear program.”
Making an atomic bomb no longer is that hard. It’s 1945 technology. Even North Korea made 50 bombs while famines forced its people to eat tree bark. Now Iran has every reason to advance bomb construction. Only negotiations could have stopped that.
And Dmitri Medvedev, No. 2 in Russia behind President Putin, posted on X on Sunday, “A number of countries are ready to directly supply Iran with their own nuclear warheads.” A couple of Pakistan’s 170 warheads could be rolled across its border into Iran.
Also on Sunday, Trump blasted on Truth Social, “It’s not politically correct to use the term, ‘Regime Change,’ but if the current Iranian Regime is unable to MAKE IRAN GREAT AGAIN, why wouldn’t there be a Regime change??? MIGA!!!”
Political correctness has nothing to do with it. Half his MAGA base opposes the war.
How does he expect to dig the Iranian regime out of Tehran? The regime survived the 1980-88 war in which it lost 1 million men to Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, which we supported. Since then, Iran spent 37 years preparing for just this American attack. And the last thing Americans want is a repeat of the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Which in any case would be impossible.
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John Seiler is on the SCNG Editorial Board
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