In a rebuke of his own party’s rhetoric, congressman Eric Swalwell said this weekend, “Now is the time for values-based arguments against war with Iran,” adding: “NOT process (‘Come to Congress’) ones.”
His point is well taken, but I’m skeptical that the opposition to the strike is focused on the machine that made it inevitable, instead of focused on Trump individually.
To Trump and Hegseth there’s no boots on the ground so no war. Trump doesn’t want imagery of people being blown up by IEDs, he wants planes and maybe some special force operation.
Actually, I think he does want that, it makes his job much easier once everybody is shocked by those images, then it becomes time to be patriotic and unify not ask questions.
Is that what will happen? I don’t know, but I am confident that is what Trump and Steven Miller think will happen.
That will tank his popularity, not increase it. Now if Iran attacks the US, who the fuck knows.
Trump doesn’t like, you know, war. IEDs are war, bombing isn’t like, you know, an actual war. It’s just bombing and stuff. /s
What evidence do you have of this?