Trump supporters did not vote for war with Iran. They didn’t vote for any military action against Iran—or any other country. In fact, Trump ran on the promise that he would be different from the warmongering neocons. He would be a president of peace. That means “no new wars.” Remember that? No new wars.

Soooo …. why then are we about to go to war with Iran?

Apparently, the Iranians will obtain a nuclear weapon if we don’t do something. That’s odd. Didn’t President Trump tell us last summer that the US strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities obliterated their nuclear program? Obliterated. Didn’t he insist that it set their nuclear program back “decades”? Not months. Not years. Decades. It hasn’t even been a year.

These are not serious people. This is another reminder that the patients are running the asylum. If the Epstein emails have proven anything, it’s that the elite class is every bit as incompetent and sociopathic as it appears. Yet it’s this same class of people who have designated themselves global arbiters, deciding who can have dangerous weapons and who can’t, who can partake in the global economy and who can’t, who deserves to be struck with the lethal hammer of American might and who doesn’t.

It’s time for the American people to seriously think about whether the decent character of the general population is reflected in our government’s actions around the world.

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Diplomacy or Deception? U.S. Builds Firepower While Iran Fortifies

Paul Dragu is an award-winning newspaper journalist, a senior writer at The New American magazine, and the collaborative writer of Defector: A True Story of Tyranny, Liberty, and Purpose. You can email Paul at [email protected]

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