So, the war drums are beating for war with Iran, and consent for the idea is being manufactured in the corporate media. Me? I'm not so hot on the idea. I've seen this all before, history is repeating itself, and I'm here to warn you guys about it.
On september 11th 2001, the US was attacked by terrorists. This caused George W. Bush, and the american public in general, go to haywire and attack Afghanistan. The idea was that we were gonna get the people responsible, particularly Osama Bin Laden, and we were gonna bring him to justice. So we went in, spent 10 years trying to find the guy, killed him, and spent another 10 screwing around "nation building" before leaving in 2021 and then seeing the Taliban immediately take over again. Honestly, we own this one. It was a decision that made sense at the time, but it didn't age well in retrospect.
But then, in 2003, still riding high off of our bloodlust after 9/11, George W. Bush said that we had to invade Iraq. he said that they were working on weapons of mass destruction, probably nukes, and that he needed to be stopped now. The Bush administration made their case before the UN, with fancy satellite photos showing lines of trucks with...something in them, who knows what with grainy footage, and that this was them making nukes, and we had to go in and stop them. Much of the international community, barring the UK and a few others, were skeptical of this. Bush had this "you're with us or youre with the terrorists" mentality and went in any way, bashing our European allies for refusing to back us up with blah blah blah if it werent for us the nazis would've won WWII and that sort of thing.
Anyway, the war drums in the media beat for this war with Iraq. And being a naive teenager who thought America was unequivocally the good guy, and myself riding high on blood lust after 9/11 and in a highly conservative environment at the time, I bought into it.
Anyway, we invaded, no WMDs were found, we looked like idiots. "Bush lied, people died", as the moveon.org protesters chanted. We ended up wasting thousands of american lives, tens of thousands of Iraqi lives, and trillions of dollars on a war that we didnt need to fight. And when the bloodlust finally broke in Bush's second term, his approval tanked, and Obama won overwhelming in 2008. Obama got us out of Iraq, only for ISIS to take over in its place, he killed Bin Laden, although didn't do much to get us out, just kept trying to stabilize the situation, and we didnt get out until the recent Biden administration, who closed that chapter of American history, and who opened up the new one where Israel and Ukraine are the new battlegrounds of the world. Biden himself seemed to be interested in defending western values and liberal democracy as he seen it. Trump...is not.
However, despite the narrative that Trump is "America first" and "anti war", he really isn't. He's enabling Israel's worst impulses and their genocidal agenda. And now...they wanna attack iran. Which, because we're kinda just doing what they want and are enabling them, means this is our problem too.
Except, I dont view this as our problem. This is israel's problem, and if Israel wants to pick a fight with Iran, they can go it alone for all I care. I'm tired of enabling Netanyahu here.
Netanyahu is like super Bush. I said it after October 7th in a sense. October 7th 2023 was like Israeli 9/11. Terrorists attacked, it caused Netanyahu, himself governing like a Bush style neocon, to respond, his abused the trust and goodwill of the international community by using this retaliation as an excuse to commit genocide, the good will of a lot of people has run out, including myself, and now that he's mopping up on Gaza, completely unfettered by the Trump administration who isn't just enabling netanyahu but is complicit in the sense that Trump fricking has plans to turn gaza into a gaudy middle eastern version of Atlantic city, he's turning his sights to iran, once again claiming that Iran is working on WMDs and that we need to attack now.
Slow down, there, champ, I don't buy this. because I've heard this all before. Remember Iraq back in 2003? Yeah. This feels like that again. We gotta go in now, we gotta attack, here's a flimsy pretext, just trust us, bro, blah blah blah. Israel is the one who wants to do this. Admittedly, they do have national security concerns there, and a nuclear Iran is something they fear because they fear they'll use nukes on Israel. BUT...again, this isn't our fight, and im sick and tired of the US falling on its sword for Israel. This isn't our fight. I dont want to see Americans going into Iran like we did Iraq and Afghanistan and do regime change, find out there were no nukes, and then spend the next 10-20 years trying to nation build, only for the second we leave some other extremist group takes over again. No. I'd rather not waste money.
We had a deal with these guys under Obama. Trump tore it up. And now they dont trust us, because we went back on OUR word. We escalated hostilities. And now Israel is needlessly escalating them too. Again, this isn't our fight. I dont want to see our guys go in and get harmed over Netanyahu's war here. And I really dont want anything to do with this. Honestly, after the gaza thing, Netanyahu has burned through any goodwill I had toward Israel, and my honest take is we should cut them off and focus on our own crap. I believe we should support Ukraine, yes, but Israel? Screw Israel at this point. If they wanna do this, they can do it on their own. But they won't. Because the only reason israel is feeling so confident is because they know that they can just rope us into their nonsense and we'll just mindlessly back them up. No. My support for Israel is conditional, and the US has to push back against them and say NO! This isn't our fight. You cant just continue to abuse our relationship like this. We want nothing to do with this.
And that's my stance. I want nothing to do with this one. Again, my honest opinion on Israel is the US should cut them off yesterday (in other words, effective immediately and we should've done it sooner). Let's see how confident they'll be when they don't have the world's greatest superpower who makes the world's worst military parades to back them up. And yes, I'm poking fun at Trump's pathetic birthday bash again. But I digress.
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