Chicago Tribune letter supporting Trump's Iran war not tethered to reality

 Chicago Tribune letter supporting Trump's Iran war not tethered to reality

David N. Simon’s Tribune Letter ‘Trump administration’s actions in Iran are matters of self-defense’ represents an astonishing defense of US criminal war, the greatest of all international crimes.

 

Anyone who honestly studied the origins of this war knows it was initiated by Trump at the request of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. It had nothing to do with Iran’s “declared war against the U.S. and the West for decades”. How did Simon miss that on February 11, Netanyahu arrived at the White House with Mossad Director David Barnea. They encouraged if not demanded invasion against an Iran at peace with the US, indeed, negotiating a new nuclear agreement to replace the one working perfectly that Trump withdrew from eight years ago. The Netanyahu-Barnea tag team argued Iran would collapse within a couple of days from a combination of assassinating Iran’s leader Ali Khamenei, massive bombing, Mossad-fomented civil unrest and ground incursions by Kurdish fighters. These are all war crimes that should get Trump indicted at The Hague if there were justice in the world.

 

Simon also misses that Trump called a ceasefire after 39 days of bombing due to massive destruction to every US base in the Gulf States and Israel, 14 US deaths and hundreds of injuries. Not only did the bombing fail to achieve a single Trump war objective, it shut down the Strait of Hormuz and now the Red Sea to vital oil traffic endangering a global economic collapse for 154 days with no end in sight. This is not self-defense…it’s self-destruction.

 

Regarding Trump’s ruinous, failed war of choice, David N. Simon, like the dwindling number of Trump dead enders still supporting it, must step up to reality before Trump’s war brings the world’s economy crashing down, including that of Mr. Simon and his followers’ Homeland.

 

 

Walt Zlotow  West Suburban Peace Coalition  Glen Ellyn IL