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Only The Dead
"You know what would be great? If we could make a peace deal with [Iran]."
So declared Donald Trump
To be sure, Trump is a terrible person and isn’t fit to be president of anything, let alone the President. Yet, in part at least, it was superstition that got him elected—twice. That says a lot about us humans as a species. We get the leader we deserve.
But let’s be clear: the Gaza war didn’t start under his watch. Neither did Ukraine. But Gaza is ending under his watch. Ukraine might too, eventually, if he keeps pushing. Sure, only the dead see the end of war. But what else can we expect from a terrible person? Bring them back?
We’re a terrible species, after all. We should all thank Hiroshima and Nagasaki that we’ve somehow gotten back on track in the pursuit of scientific progress and made it this far. It should’ve all turned to dust by now if it weren’t for them.
I’m not sure what happened in Gaza will get the Mideast back on track. Maybe it’s really time to make a peace deal with Iran. That’d be really great.
We did move on from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, didn’t we?
We didn’t have to move on from Hiroshima, they did. Especially since our occupation of their country for seven years at the end of the war finally allowed them to do so. My dad was stationed on Guam when the bomb destroyed Hiroshima and was part of the initial group of naval officers sent in to catalog the devastation. He was the official naval photographer in the area. If you’d seen the initial pictures you’d know there was no real moving on. Michael Douglas was in a movie about this time called “Black Rain.”
This is all political theater.
Two criminals, Trump and Netanyahu, are still trying to avoid prison and will do anything or kill anybody in the way.
Oh, and the 3 real estate salesmen: Trump, Witkoff, and Kushner are wanting to develop Mediterranean Sea front property.
And Trump still thinks he’s buying his way into heaven.
My guess is that the “war” will be back on in a week or two. Bibi has to keep it fresh.
Japan was not still in the stone age, like these fanatics are and want the rest of us to be.