The United States — with its obsequious Democratic and Republican legislators, and a country that seems to have forgotten the horrible consequences of the 20‑year debacles in Iraq and Afghanistan — has now lurched into another unnecessary war. This US-ISRAELI-IRAN war was never approved by Congress, pushed forward by a president whose public comments about veterans and military service have been widely criticized, and carried out by a Pentagon that rarely questions the momentum of war. As General Smedley Butler said nearly a century ago, “War is a racket.” Its purpose is to make the rich richer and the poor poorer. Nothing has changed.
In the United States, the Christian nationalist right, backed by AIPAC, the military‑industrial mafia, and a chainsaw‑wielding billionaire, has helped drive much of the country’s foreign policy toward Iran. They frame the confrontation as some grand civilizational clash — modernity versus barbarism, freedom versus theocracy — as if the world were a comic book instead of a place full of real people. It is mythology wrapped in a flag and sold as destiny. The reality is simpler and far less noble: the United States has carried a hunger for vengeance since 1979, when the Shah fell, and American power was expelled from Iran.