By Rick Boettger

Massive civilian bombing of Iran is absolutely not being considered. Bombing infrastructure is threatened, but is largely criticized as a war crime.  It increasingly seems to be a months-long empty threat, as Iran does exactly what everyone expected–stalling, with zero intention of any compromise.

Compare our “Greatest Generation” in 1945. We killed between 500-800,000 civilians, not warriors, in Germany and Japan, in a single year when neither was making any military attacks, and both wars were indisputably won.* We have never as a nation expressed the slightest regret. 

I consider 1945 the most recent shame of our nation, hard to compare to slavery and our Indians, for which we actually have apologized. I am surprised and elated that as a nation we seemed to have gained some morality–surprised because not only Trump applauds violence, but the American public overwhelmingly supports torture and other military atrocities.-*

What is especially odd is that only Iran explicitly threatens us with “Death to America!” while actually still in an active, ongoing shadow war with us, and possessing much greater nuclear and ballistic missile threats to our homeland than past enemies ever did.  Note Japan bombed Pearl because we had cut off 95% of their oil supply in support, ironically, of China.  And we are actually close to Germany, who attacked us because we were the source of necessary supplies for both Western Europe and Russia.  They set up fewer attacks on us in wartime than Iran has already done before the current war.

Amazingly to me, we are going to lose the war against Iran, and humiliatingly so.  Never before has a war loss been so widely celebrated in America, maybe in any country.  Of course the majority of the country hates Trump, but so much of his former coalition, Hispanics and young minorities, have turned against him, as well as even many of his MAGA voters, who just want cheaper gas and eggs.

*The RAF Marshal ordered “the destruction of German cities, the killing of German workers, and the disruption of civilized life throughout Germany.”  Churchill admitted the “policy of bombing Germany simply for the sake of increasing the terror.”  General Curtis LeMay admitted his fire-bombing of Japanese cites was “a war crime.”

**Only 22% of Americans supported Ridenhour’s expose., while 67% supported Calley and killing civilians in general.  Letter to Carter after his sentencing were 100 to one against it.

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