....Is the US Senate suddenly thinking about America’s younger generations who want, and need, peace and liberty? Is it reflecting on Trump’s failed military and absent diplomatic strategy for long-term US power projection – or just peace – in the Persian Gulf? Did it discover that the emerging security architecture there doesn’t include the US? Is it asserting Article 1 constitutional powers because of concern about wasted taxpayer dollars, or were 53 Senators just tired of being left out of the profitable shorts made by executive suite cronies? Is the Senate somehow acting on behalf of our nation and the Constitution?
The answer is none of the above. The uni-party, and the unitary state, is incoherently attempting, probably at the request of the real owners of this country, to fashion Washington’s exit from a deep hole that Israel needed the US, and specifically Trump, to dig. Trump dug enthusiastically, burying billions in our military munitions and capability, as well as the last fragments of our global good will, furiously slinging dirt and debris. Flag officers and teenage soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines alike have been awestruck by the strategic and tactical disaster of this war. A nervous world waits and watches from the sidelines, in gas lines, and soon, in food lines.
We shall see if the House likewise considers this resolution to bring the troops home, much less if both houses approve it – only to face down a Trump veto delivered on Truth Social, a minute or two after it is provided to White House crony investors. On paper, the House is the people’s representative body and overwhelmingly the American people oppose this latest Trump war. Except, as we saw in the unhinged Kentucky 4th District primary, the prime directive remains that no US representative may disobey the Israel lobby. It’s not what Americans want; it is what Netanyahu, Smotrich, and Ben Gvir want, and in a few months, it will be what Naftali Bennett and his allies in the Knesset want. Which is to say, a tiny ethno-fascist empire halfway around the planet calls the literal shots in, and those fired by, the United States.
Central Command Dweeb In Chief Bradley Cooper, wormy-looking and wide-eyed, responded to a Congressional question about why he authorized the February 28th Tomahawk triple tap on a girls school in Minab. While struggling to locate his spine, he answered with the equivalent of “It’s complicated.”
Indeed it is. What isn’t complicated is the message the empire is sending not just to the world, but to Americans specifically. That message is STFU and suffer. When we hear this message from “our government,” there is only one acceptable response: “You first.”
The world is still burning. Let us resolve to be more honestly informed, and to conceive our facts more correctly. Let us be a little less quiet, as we clarify rightness and wrongness in our political arrangement. Let us embrace the Jeffersonian truth that liberty requires action. And just for fun, let us revel in the knowledge that our backbones are vastly more functional than those of our political and military leaders!
