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Trust a psychotic career criminal with the world’s strongest military and it’s no surprise that he’ll use it in the worst way.
The Con-mander in Chief took time out from his primary pursuit of purloining profits from his presidency to run an itty bitty excursion in Iran. (You know, an excursion like when you take a Caribbean cruise.) Apparently, acquiescing to his buddy Bibi Netanyahu’s wishes for the U.S. to do the heavy airlifting of bombing the Persians back to the Stone Age, Donald Dump merrily ordered our Air Force to destroy selected targets in and around Tehran with terrifying efficiency.
Except it’s not so efficient after all. According to The Guardian, the U.S., relying on old intel and an AI program called Maven, bombed a building which had formerly housed a military installation. About 10 years ago it was turned into a girls school. The info hadn’t been updated, so at least 175 students and teachers were killed. That was on the first day of our war of choice. What a stain on the soul of America!
So our Oaf of Office has added war criminal to his resumé. When can we expect a prosecution, a reckoning? As Johnny Mathis sang so long ago, Chances Are the Twelfth of Never.
As bad as this belligerent bully behaves toward his fellow humans, he’s just as dangerous to the flora and fauna, as well as the air and water of the world.
The war, um, I mean excursion, has unleashed a plethora of petroleum conflagrations, spewing hot black smoke into our atmosphere. Yeah, OUR atmosphere. We will breathe that air like all living things on Earth, and it will damage us.
I’ll quote the headline of a famous columnist here from an essay written during the first Gulf War in 1991: The Earth Loses All Wars by Frank Lingo. Besides showing my age, it shows that history repeats itself, no matter how stupid and self-destructive it is.
When you pick a fight with an oil power, it’s inevitable that a lot of its prime product will be set ablaze. Yes, we already were going to burn that oil in the form of gasoline but it’s less polluting when it burns in our engines and has catalytic converters to reduce the toxicity. The crude oil fires now burning in Iran and around the Middle East are far more perilous to the planet. These conflagrations will accelerate the rate of global warming worldwide.
Of course, according to Felon 47, global warming is a hoax. That “hoax” has already produced more gigantic forest fires, more widespread droughts and more hurricanes than before human hands adversely affected our atmosphere.
The Guardian also noted that black rain fell on Tehran soon after the bombing began. That’s a precursor to further devastation resulting from both the oil and military hazards released into the air and water, including heavy metals, and PFAs, also known as forever chemicals, which are poisonous to humans and other living things.
But the MAGA folks aren’t concerned with little problems like ecological catastrophe. There are devotees of Donald who believe this could be the start of the final war to bring us the Rapture, a fantasy concocted by Bible thumpers where Jesus returns and raises the faithful to Heaven. What a cruel and bizarre irony that their avatar is the closest thing to the Anti-Christ since Adolf Hitler.
For those of us who hope to keep living on the Earth in some semblance of sanity, we better free ourselves from the tyrants who would wage war as casually as they sell golden Bibles, or we’ll continue to be the victims of their vengeance.
Frank Lingo, based in Lawrence, Kansas, is a former columnist for the Kansas City Star and author of the novel “Earth Vote.”
Email: lingofrank@gmail.com.
See his website: Greenbeat.world
