Stopping Trump's War

WITH EACH PASSING DAY, it becomes increasingly evident that this whole business of starting a war with Iran is nothing other than a diversion, albeit a rather impressive one, from the lingering and seemingly here to stay matter of the Epstein files. Will we ever see them? Will they ever be released? And if so, will they be so highly redacted that they have no real value? At this point I, and I am sure many other people, have already decided, long since, to believe the worst about Donald Trump. The reason for this is that by doing so, you are never surprised or disappointed. No matter what you choose to believe about Trump, when the truth is finally revealed, which we must concede it not always is, it almost invariably seems to excede our worst expectations. He really did try to steal the election of 2020 from Biden, America witnessed that horror first hand. The true horror of it, as has been pointed out numerous times, is not so much Trump's false claim of election theft but the fact that almost one half of the American people, knowing full well that Trump's claim of election fraud was a lie, chose to embrace it, to pretend to believe it. This remains perhpas the most glaring example of Trump somehow enabling within his followers their worst potential instincts, the more they accept, embrace, or ignore his lies, the more empowered they feel to tell their own lies, to weave a web of lies into a world view according to which, even at this late date, Donald Trump remains, in their eyes, the only true solution to all of America's problems. The problem with a diversion like a war with Iran is that in order to be effective,it must last long enough to take teh attention of the American people away from the Epstein files for more than a few hours, days, or weeks. From the very moment when Trump started our current war with Iran by bombing it, this war has been very unpopular among the Amerian people, as indicated by all surveys and measurements. The longer Trump keeps it going - and make no mistake, this is Trump's war, all Trump's war, his war of choice, and while nobody else can, and he can bring it to an end when and if he chooses. The best guess is that he'll try to find a way to end it very soon, because it will never become more popular with the American electorate that it is now, and it is extremely unpopular now. Perhaps, as usual, Trump is playing more to his base than to the rest of us, the sixty percent of Americans who despise him. In the early stages, a high percentage of Trump supporters are expressing approval for our new American Iranian war. Unless there is more recent information, at least eleven Americans have already died in Trump's war, MAGA's war. There will, of course, be more. The question is how many more Amerian casualties will there be, and what will be the country's reaction to Trump's war as they begin to mount up, which, it would seem inevitable that they will. The best,smartestthing that Trump could probably do at this point is to make a few more threats, leave the U.S. warhips in the Gulf of Iran for a little while longer,then quietly move them out of harm's way, before they get sunk by cheap drones. Everybody who ever started a war did so firmly believing that the war would be short and victorious, and those predictions are amazingly, consistentlly wrong. Wars always last longer and kill more people than anyone had or could possibly have foreseen. Trump's war is his war of choice, a deliberate diversion from his other crimes. Let's choose to stop it.