The War of the Clown Shoes

Over the past few days, I've heard these justifications:

• Iran is weeks away from having an atomic bomb (been hearing variations of that for twenty years).
• Iran was about to launch an attack (a lie).
• Iran was obtaining the ability to launch an ICBM (not for at least a decade, if longer).
• Iran was going to attack us anyway, some day (when Trump got a Nobel).
• We're pursuing regime change.
• We're not pursuing regime change.
• Iran wasn't negotiating fast enough for Trump.

To both the world and to the American people, it looks like a war led by total incompetents who are only trying to look tough on Fox News. The last "major" power country to launch a war without trying to make a case for it to the world was Russia in its attack on Ukraine. Even Bush, in his dumb-ass war in Iraq, tried to make the case for it beforehand and line up allies to join in.

Here, we're pretty much doing this on our own. Democracies have to answer to their people, which may be why most other countries in the free world aren't lining up to go finght in Donnie's Big Beautiful War.