OPINION: Bombing Iran back to the Stone Age is not a winning strategy
Donald Trump proclaimed on July 26 that he was going to “beat the f**king s**t out of” Iran. This was in response to an Iranian missile attack on a US base in Jordan. Earlier, in his meandering April Fools’ Day speech, he had vowed to send Iran “back to the stone ages.” His incantations remind me of the famous 1965 words of General Curtis LeMay, a former Air Force Chief of Staff. LeMay’s solution to North Vietnam’s aggression against South Vietnam was to “bomb them back in the Stone Age.” That faulty strategy did not work then, and it won’t work to “win” Trump’s war in Iran.
The gutless Republican-controlled Congress could step in and bring this insanity to a halt. After all, the US Constitution gives Congress the power to start and stop wars. The lame excuses dished out by members of Idaho’s Congressional delegation, all of whom solemnly pledged to support the Constitution, demonstrate the extent of the corruption that has allowed this wretched war to continue.
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