June 24, 2025
For the U.S. to take military action against Iran, it is almost like the University of Tennessee football team taking on a little boys team from the Pee Wee league.
Iran's total military budget was only a little over two percent of the U.S. military budget, and that was before Israel started dropping bombs there and killing Iran's top eight Generals and its nine leading nuclear scientists.
Iran had made no credible military threat against the U.S. and was not even capable of attacking us in any significant way if they had.
We should not have allowed Netanyahu to lead us into another unnecessary war in the Middle East as he did in Iraq. The world renowned foreign policy expert, Professor Jeffrey Sachs, called Netanyahu the "main cheerleader" for the Iraq War and described him as "one of the most violent and dangerous people in the world."
Even before we jumped in, Israel was already winning its war and had achieved total air superiority by wiping out Iran's air defense capabilities.
Thankfully, our pilots and crew members were in no danger and were simply following orders, but they were dropping bombs that were not needed and should not have been dropped in the first place.
Netanyahu had been crying wolf for 30 years falsely claiming over and over that Iran was just weeks or months away from developing a nuclear bomb. This claim had been debunked by several different intelligence officials over the years, including by Tulsi Gabbard as recently as March 25.
Israel has refused to join the International Atomic Energy Agency like all other countries with nuclear power except North Korea. It also has refused to disclose the number of nuclear warheads it has, but most estimates are 300 or more. This gives Israel overwhelming nuclear superiority in the Middle East.
The only reason it needs to have the U.S. in this war is for public relations purposes. Almost every nation except the U.S.has harshly condemned Israel for its extreme and excessive cruelty in killing and starving so many thousands of women and children in Gaza.
Sen. Charles Schumer said in a Senate speech on March 14, 2024 that Netanyahu had become "too willing to tolerate the civilian toll in Gaza, which is pushing support for Israel worldwide to historic lows", and he added "Israel cannot survive if it becomes a pariah."
Israel's unnecessary war in Iran might possibly have been the last straw, the final step in making it a worldwide pariah for sure if the U.S. had not joined the war.
Unfortunately, almost every President since World War Two, with the exception of Eisenhower, has seemed to want to be seen as a new Winston Churchill. They and their closest advisors seem to get excited and feel very powerful and important if they can go to dramatic late night meetings in a White House war room and put this Country into another war.
The head of the U.S. Military Central Command, Gen. Michael Kurilla, nicknamed "The Gorilla" and described as "Israel's favorite General", an d Gen. Dan 'Razin' Caine, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, have been pushing for U.S. involvement. Also egging the war effort on have been the Senate's two leading "bomb everybody" hawks, Sen. Lindsay Graham and Sen. Tom Cotton.
This war has already cost our taxpayers many billions in all the weapons and equipment we have sent to Israel in addition to the planes, bombs, missiles, warships, troops and equipment we have moved into the region. Earlier we spent about two billion and lost two jets in bombing Yemen at Israel's request.
President Trump was elected in large part because of his opposition to the war in Iraq and because he said he wanted to put America First. The war in Iran is not our war. It is putting Israel First.
In his Inaugural Address. President Trump said: "We will measure our success not only by little battles we win, but also by the wars that end, and perhaps MOST IMPORTANTLY, THE WARS WE NEVER GET INTO." (my emphasis) Where is that man today?
In his speech in Riyadh, he said the marvels of the Middle East were "not created by the so-called 'nation builders', neocons, or liberal non-profits....". He said "the so-called nation builders wrecked far more than they ever built, and the interventionists were intervening in complex societies that they did not even understand themselves." Where is this man now?
By intervening in this latest war, we are bowing to the wishes of the neocons who have already cost this Nation the lives of thousands of young Americans and trillions of dollars.
Even if this intervention against a very weak Iran ends quickly, it still sets a very bad precedent and sends us down the wrong path to follow for a Nation whose rank and file want peace, not unnecessary war. And the neocons said the Iraq War would be a "cakewalk."
I wish President Trump would be more like President Eisenhower. In 1956, Eisenhower not only resisted tremendous pressure from Israel to join it in a war against Egypt, he did it on national television one week before the presidential election.
Mitchell Bard wrote in The Times of Israel in 2014: "Eisenhower went on television to criticize Israel's failure to withdraw from Egypt and warned he would impose sanctions if it failed to comply. Eisenhower was prepared to cut off all economic aid, to lift the tax-exempt status of the United Jewish Appeal, and to apply sanctions on Israel."
Trump said on Feb. 13 that he wanted to cut the military budget in half. Now, he is pushing his"Big Beautiful Bill" which would increase defense spending by $150 billion to over one trillion a year.
In Evan Thomas's book on Eisenhower's foreign policy, "Ike's Bluff", it says: "When Defense Secretary Neil McElroy warned him that further cuts would harm national security, Eisenhower acerbically replied, 'If you go to any military installation in the world where the American flag is flying and tell the commander that Ike says he will give him an extra star for his shoulder if he cuts his budget, there'll be such a rush to cut his budget you'll have to get out of the way."
Eisenhower also told his staff secretary, Gen. Andrew Goodpaster "God help the Nation when it has a President who doesn't know as much about the military as I do."