March 28, 2026
War is the most horrific series of events upon which any government can engage. It is systematic, industrialized, indiscriminate killing. It kills innocent adults and little girls. It often ruins the post-war lives of the killers. It is young men violently fighting old men's power games. It is the health of the state. - Judge Andrew P. Napolitano
Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich. - Peter Ustinov
Since the attack on Iran was inaugurated by a powerful state rather than tattooed street gangs, the criminals responsible will never be punished. There will be no comparable Nuremberg trials in which holier-than-thou accusers sentenced to death Nazi leaders for crimes against humanity. In Iran, the "mistake" of killing over 100 civilians, mostly children, after a US Tomahawk missile turned an elementary school to rubble was a result of outdated intelligence we are told, as if that excuses it, and was therefore not intentional and therefore not a crime against humanity. The US has a policy of not intentionally killing children, we hope.
Nor will the attack on Iran - it's not a war, it's a " Middle East conflict" - ever be seen as a crime, as we know from history. Going back to WW II again, did any international body ever punish the US for atomic bombing Japan ? Or firebombing Dresden or Tokyo ? Of course not. Dissent from General Eisenhower and Admiral Leahy about using the Bomb didn't stop it from happening. Truman overruled everyone, just as Trump does today. Dissent from two military leaders - what do they know ? Propaganda about saving military lives won the day. Victors don't commit war crimes.
George W. Bush is still praised in some quarters despite what could be regarded as a misleading- if not knowingly false-case for Iraqi WMD. On February 5, 2003 Colin Powell made a Powerpoint presentation to the UN Security Council:
"Every statement I make today is backed up by solid sources," [Powell] said. "What we're giving you are facts and conclusions. Clearly, Saddam Hussein and his regime will stop at nothing until something stops him."
UN inspectors in Iraq had found no evidence of WMD, either chemical/biological or nuclear. But Bush and company had visions of democracy and profits (Iraq was swimming in oil). One month after Powell's talk US troops arrived in Iraq. Earlier, US sanctions had failed to ignite a regime overhaul, instead killing upwards of 500,000 children, with Madeleine Albright's infamous 60 Minutes comment highlighting the policy. Half a million dead children ? So what ? Her comment fit nicely in Bin Laden's recruitment videos.
But this time, it will be different. This time they know - everyone knows - Iran is an evil regime. Iran entered America's official pantheon of enemies in W's 2002 SOTU address, who teamed Iran with Iraq and North Korea as an "axis of evil":
By seeking weapons of mass destruction, these regimes pose a grave and growing danger. They could provide these arms to terrorists, giving them the means to match their hatred. [Hatred for our freedoms, of course.] They could attack our allies or attempt to blackmail the United States. In any of these cases, the price of indifference would be catastrophic.
Bush's total lack of indifference had a price of its own. A war launched to eliminate weapons that failed to materialize left hundreds of thousands dead and cost trillions of dollars-without a declaration of war.
The Trump-Netanyahu team has apparently studied the Bush-Cheney policy of kill first, think about it later. Both "leaders" represent states that possess nuclear weapons. But we're told they're the good guys, even if they are picking on a country that is only one-sixth the size of the US and whose average annual personal income after taxes is a whopping 5.5% of that of US workers. In short, the US is a far bigger, richer country and has a vast nuclear arsenal, having a total of 5042 nuclear warheads, including 1770 deployed.
With an advantage this huge, the US can't possibly lose in its effort to annihilate a country that once again poses no threat to the US. But so far Iran refuses to back down.
Not satisfied with such an advantage Trump has asked for an additional $200 billion to conduct his aggression for Netanyahu. That'll certainly smoke the presses at the Fed but what's fiat money for, if not to fund endless wars?
And that $200 billion ? Mother Jones speculated on what it could buy instead. Leftists never consider leaving the money in its original pockets, but still, we find their usual creativity on their list of alternatives. Here is what $200 billion might also buy:
2,857 luxury 737 jets, bedroom included
500 more White House ballrooms
2,666 Melania sequels
100 Pentagon name changes
2,341 Trump heads on the real Mount Rushmore, space permitting
And of course,
Approximately 1 tank of gas, when this is all over.