Iran attack
The recent US/Israeli attack against Iran has certainly gripped the world’s attention, impacting both friend and foe of our respective countries.
Over the decades it’s become relatively easy for people to condemn any military action due entirely to the inevitable, resultant death and destruction. It’s much more difficult to present an argument of relative justification since our awareness of facts and presumptive facts have become one in the same, and any death just by itself overrules vital reasoning.
From routine Iranian governmental pronouncements demanding Israels destruction, as well as ongoing organizing and funding of their proxy organizations for the implementation of numerous deadly attacks worldwide, it’s inconceivable to envision any form of peace or stability for the Middle East.
Since 1979 Iran essentially transformed itself into an outdated, theocratic, repressive model of government, where organized militias maintain strict, cruel control over the entire general population, and the leaders are wholeheartedly committed to world wide militarism, menacingly coupled with nuclear ambitions and ballistic missiles. Their threats are very real.
All our presidents from Clinton to Biden have been woefully ineffective in addressing this escalating and dangerous situation, offering little more than empty posturing and reprimands.
Any preemptive military strike is fraught with the gravest of reservations and unpredictable backlash. Yet to say that war is bad, period, and that there is no justification or excuse, is to base a sovereign nation’s global positioning on wholly fanciful worldly perceptions.
Subsequent generations of Europeans, and Americans, have reflected with passionate astonishment as to the depth of their parents and grandparents naïveté and ensuing inactions towards an aggressive and expanding Nazi Germany, opting for fraudulent peace treaties in the stead. If only a nation, or nations, had been willing to stand up, has become the common most rationale in the retrospective clarity of the aftermath. Yet, if someone had stood up with a strong military reprisal early on, they surely would have been roundly criticized for creating a war scenario climate with needless deaths and suffering, instead of having given peace a chance. Any action is controversial and uncertain, but ongoing acquiescence and appeasement will not save the day.