Civilization and His Discontents

“Tuesday,

will be

Power Plant Day,

and Bridge Day,

all wrapped up

in one,

in Iran.

There will be

nothing

like it!!!

Open

the Fuckin’

Strait,

you crazy

bastards,

or you’ll

be living

in Hell-

JUST WATCH!

Praise be to

Allah.

President

DONALD J.TRUMP”

And then:

“A whole civilization

will die

tonight,

never to be

brought back

again.

I don’t

want that

to happen,

but it

probably

will.”

On Wednesday

(the next day):

“The United States

will work closely

with Iran,

which we

have determined

has gone through

what will be

a very productive

Regime Change.”

Those tweets

he sent

spurred

talk

of the 25th

Ammendement

by

Alex Jones

and Marjorie

Taylor Greene,

no less.

I guess

even

the most

uncivilized

can become

traumatized

or

ignore

what

to us

seemed

crazy

and cruel

before.

The toll

we’ll pay

will be more

than

the cost

of The Strait

at the

going rate.

We pummeled

Iran’s military

which was very

much

not

the threat,

yet,

it sounded

like

a win.

The next

of kin,

may seem

new,

but it’s the

same regime,

just,

Khameni II.

And if allowed

to enrich

uranium,

um….

I’m not sure

what the peace

is for,

while

Iran holds

the world

hostage,

controlling

the Strait

of Hormuz.

If he will

choose

peace

after this

cease fire,

he will

require

a cut

of the tolls.

That’s how

he rolls.

Civilization

can not

be his

craps.

A.I. War

American-Israeli?

America-Iran?

The Iran War

is for…..?

Nuclear

disarmament

and an intent

to change

the regime?

It may seem

a semantic

matter

what to call

all

this,

or is this

history

soon

to be re-

defined?

Never mind

the stupidity

of no exit

strategy

from the

unforeseen

tragedy

that always

unfolds

when

a no holds

barred

approach

with constant

reproach

is the

brand of

diplomacy.

Over a

century,

there was

The Great

War,

then renamed

more

appropriately,

World War

One,

which the allies

against

Germany

eventually

won.

Or did we?

The second

World War

brought

the nuclear

age

after we

decimated

Hiroshima

and Nagaski.

Emboldened

and beholden

to the cause

of democracy

we deployed

troops

south

of the DMZ.

Then we chose

to bomb

Viet Nam

so that we

could be

free,

in case

you could

see red

from

your bed

at home

instead

of in

the jungles.

All the bungles

of that war

and explanations

at the time

undermined

what Americans

saw.

International

law

prohibited

the bombing

of Cambodia,

but for

a paranoid

crook

who took

the oath,

Nixon

put the fix in,

but then

the truly

great Americans

forced

his resignation

over the Watergate

investigation.

At home

and abroad

fraud

counts,

and when it

mounts,

citizens rebel.

The story

we tell

ourselves

about war

is for

being

a good guy.

The 9/11

attacks on us

gave us

a reasonable

mission:

defeat

the seat

of the terrorist

threat

in Afganistan.

But soon

we

got sidetracked

to Iraq

using artificial

intelligence.

A mushroom cloud

image

was the official

message

to rally

support

for invasion.

Iraqis would

welcome us,

we were told;

a slam dunk!

We were drunk

with fear

and Sadam

was an easier

target

than Osama.

And then

the Ayatollah,

because,

you know,

he’s evil.

It’s hard

to argue

with what

you know

is true,

but who

knows the

rest?

We don’t.

And I’m

not sure

our Department

of War

or

Commander

in Chief,

who still

refuses

to brief

Americans

beyond

social media

posts,

knows

what to do

really.

Ideally,

a coalition

of allies

tries

diplomacy,

but see,

he

alone,

can fix

it.

No congressional

approval,

ladies and gents,

just artificial

intelligence

at war

with who

we need

to be.