Second Chicago Tribune Iran war editorial more tone deaf, detached from reality than first

The Trib’s editorial ‘The human cost of the war in Iran’ on Day 11 of Trump’s illegal, immoral war on Iran was astonishing in its detachment from the reality of Trump’s criminality blowing up the Middle East and possibly the world economy while killing untold thousands .

The editorial laments the suffering of the Iranians being blasted by the ghoulish US, Israeli bombardment without a hint of its criminality as a war of aggression, the most heinous of international crimes. Regarding he school bombing that killed 170 Iranian kids and their teachers, the Trib quotes Secretary of State Marco Rubio, an architect of this ghastly war, that “The United States would not deliberately target a school.” Rubio was a tad less deceitful than Trump who claimed Iran bombed their own school because “their missiles are wildly inaccurate. Rubio didn’t deny the US was liable because he knows, like everyone in the Trump administration from Trump on down, that the 170 school kids and their teachers were murdered by US bombs. The Trib disgraces itself floating Rubio and Trump’s deflection of their clear responsibility.

The editorial offers not a hint of the devastation being visited upon US military bases in the Gulf States. Not a hint of the devastation visited upon Israel. Not a hint of the fact that the US, Israel and Gulf States are running out of defensive interceptors to stop Iran’s seemingly endless supply of offensive missiles. Trump found out just yesterday how wildly he underestimated Iran’s missile stockpile.

Instead of calling for an end to this monstrous, criminal war, the Trib simply sighs, “we have to remember that our country is at war.” That’s a coy war of lending support to a criminal war that cannot be won because there is no measure of victory short of obliterating Iran

Stating “War is often debated in terms of strategy, deterrence and geopolitics” is a meaningless word salad when there is urgency to calling out Trump’s war as a monumental crime that must be ended forthwith.

Two Chicago Tribune editorials on the Iran war and two tone deaf takes detached from its grotesque, senseless reality. Either the Trib knows nothing about the war, or simply ignores the truth to curry favor with the Trump administrations descent into madness while claiming to lament its innocent victims.

Walt Zlotow West Suburban Peace Coalition Glen Ellyn IL