WAR -- Short? but NOT SWEET
Mixed messages. Billions spent. Direction unclear.
So? I wanted to make a good guess about Trump’s somewhat easing of his war drumbeat, but it’s pretty clear that even Trump has no idea which direction he’s headed.
So hold your bets! Trump’s illegal war moves—expanding and advancing, with money no object, and empathy a thing of the past—while our “Do Nothing!” Congress, controlled by Republican narrow majorities, sits quietly. It is far worse than Harry Truman’s “do-nothing” Congress.
Republicans met this weekend in Doral, FL, for a three-day conference. Funny thing: Monday night, as the no-accomplishment conference ended, Trump held a press conference to say, “The war would soon be over.” At the end of his comments, Trump again said the Iran War would be over “very soon.”
Meanwhile, DOD Secretary Hegseth took a different path, saying, “No stupid rules of engagement, no nation-building quagmire, no democracy-building exercise, no politically-correct wars. We fight to win.”
I wonder if they’ve talked to each other recently.
“Boots on the ground” are probably next. Rumors about reinstating the draft are spreading, and today Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt further stirred them by saying a military draft is "not off the table."
True to form, no one seems to have either a plan or a timeline. One source says $6 billion was spent on artillery in the first week, but another source says $5.6 billion was “squandered” in the first two days.
Trump’s goal for “regime change” has been achieved, but that doesn’t seem to matter. Possibly because Trump wanted to choose the new Iranian leader, but Iranians selected theirs first, so the new leader is Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s son Mojtaba Khamenei.
Note: As if there was any doubt after Venezuela’s “regime change,” the one thing we can be sure of is that another way to spell “objective” is “OIL.” It may also mean “QUAGMIRE.”
Forever wars are the new “in” thing.