They Went and Did It. Finally.

 After "Barbara Ann"

R.I.P., Brian Wilson 

Bomb, bomb, bomb, Bomb bomb Iran

 We bombed Iran!

Just 'cause we can

We bombed Iran

We got Iraqi roles in harm's way

And World War feeling to-day, Bomb Iran

Bomb, bomb, We bombed Iran.

Too bad we couldn't wait Trump's classic "two weeks", as the deal was there to be had.  Now, he wants to find "peace"--fat chance.  Why would Iran want to negotiate now, if the nuclear program has been "completely obliterated", or even if it hasn't?  

"Thank You Falettin' Me Be Mice Elf Again" 

--the late Sly Stone, also recently departed 

That's what our leading "warfighters" and other neo-cons should be singing today, if only they had a bit of soul and musical memory.  Because, what good is having the best military in the world if you can't use it against lesser foes once in a while?  

People of good will are saying that it is for the best, despite it being the product of the warped minds of Trump and Netanyahu.  I will never be convinced that it was necessary, and I am far from convinced that it helped anything.  Maybe those centrifuges are destroyed (though they can be replaced), but where did those six bombs' worth of enriched uranium go?  I don't have a good feeling about that. 

People asked why Bibi chose this time to go after Iran; it is easy for me to answer.  He just had a narrow escape in preserving his coalition's majority in the Knesset, as the campaign in Gaza wears on, producing no results and much bad will.  Trump and Iran were possibly going to make the deal that would, by all rights, prevent him from completing his dream of ending Iran's nuclear weapons threat.  The amazing thing is that he got Trump and the US warhawks to buy in to their attack, that they believed they could waltz right over the undefended airspace, drop their 5B (big beautiful bunker-busting bomb) and then come safely home, and that would be the end of it.  

Ha! Nothing's that simple. 

I woke up this mornin' and none of the news was good

Death machines were rumblin' 'cross the ground where Jesus stood

And the man on my TV told me that it had always been that way

And there was nothing anyone could do or say ...

But I believe there'll come a day when the lion and the lamb 

Will lie down in peace together in Jerusalem 

--"Jerusalem", Steve Earle (2002)