With Chuck DeVore commentary, Chicago Tribune goes all in for Trump’s criminal US war on Iran

 With Chuck DeVore commentary, Chicago Tribune goes all in for Trump’s criminal US war on Iran

 

Been reading the Chicago Tribune for 75 years. Never before have I read Tribune commentary that fully supports a criminal US war. That streak ended today upon reading former US Army intelligence officer Chuck DeVore’s commentary “The US has the ability to achieve victory in Iran.” 

 

DeVore justifies Trump’s dastardly attack for “two reasons: because we had to and because we had the ability to achieve victory.” Neither is remotely true. The verdict of history will put Trump’s deranged and likely failed war on Iran down as a criminal war of choice, the supreme international crime. The verdict worldwide, with the exception of criminal war partner Israel, is already putting their stamp of criminality on Trump’s war.

 

The US has no ability to achieve victory. Why? Because Trump and his war council have no effective response to Iran’s robust defense systematically destroying US military assets in the region, bombing Israel round the clock in retaliation, and choking off the world’s oil and other resource supplies presaging worldwide recession.

 

Indeed, Trump and his war council have no articulated plan of victory because their only one was Iran capitulating in 3 days once they assassinated Iran’s leader the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. That had the opposite effect…galvanizing Iran’s 90 million souls to resist the US, Israeli existential threat to their existence. They will never surrender and never quit resisting Trump’s criminal war.  

 

In a stunning development yesterday as DeVore’s deplorable commentary went to press, Trump’s top counterterrorism officer Joe Kent resigned in protest against Trump’s criminal war with this irrefutable rationale:

 

“I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war. Early in this administration, high-ranking Israeli officials and influential members of the American media deployed a misinformation campaign that wholly undermined your America First platform and sowed pro-war sentiments to encourage a war with Iran. This was a lie and is the same tactic the Israelis used to draw us into the disastrous Iraq war. As a veteran who deployed to combat 11 times and as a Gold Star husband who lost my beloved wife Shannon in a war manufactured by Israel, I cannot support sending the next generation off to fight and die in a war that serves no benefit to the American people nor justifies the cost of American lives.”

 

The Chicago Tribune should remove Chuck DeVore’s commentary from their website. It should publish an editorial condemning Trump’s criminal war on Iran and demanding its end.

 

The damage Trump has done to Iran, Israel, US bases in the region and soon the worldwide economy will reverberate for months, possibly years. The least the Chicago Tribune can do is stop supporting this madness and atone for doing so by abandoning that support and calling for its end.

 

Walt Zlotow  West Suburban Peace Coalition