A private post by a friend, shared with his permission:
Another stupid fucking war in the Middle East.
Just say no. No more wars in the Middle East, ever, for any reason. Stay the hell away from that black hole. Over the course of my life the amount of blood and treasure we have poured into this black hole is staggering, and for what. What’s it good for? Absolutely nothing.
I especially resent the USA becoming Netanyahu’s bitch. Bibi has wanted to drag the USA into war with Iran for a very long time. He finally found a sucker to buy into that. A divorce from Israel cannot come soon enough. I am done with them. Israel is a liability. Get it off the national balance sheet, please. What is the USA getting out of this relationship? More wars? Hard pass.
There is nothing in the Middle East worth the bones of a single American GI, to paraphrase Bismarck.
The only regime change I am interested in is here in the USA.
Maybe this war helps that along, so there is that. Trump’s casus belli? Because fuck you, that’s why. The public was not prepped for this. It is of course a massively illegal power grab, but that is par for the course for Trump.
I very much doubt this helps the GOP in the midterms. Especially the higher oil prices.
I would have phrased the comments about Israel less harshly. As an American Jew of a certain generation I feel a strong bond to Israel, and over the course of my lifetime I have had many positive and warm interactions with Israelis — as recently as last week.
But Israel has gone to a dark place since 2023, perhaps much longer than that, and as an American I say we need to stop letting them drag us behind them.