Bombs Away

Oh, I get it. The Senate President delayed starting the impeachment case, other senators pushed for its dismissal, and they found an unexpected way of returning the articles to its sender to have it deferred and deferred; so that it would lapse on that one year ban, to make going through with it “unconstitutional”. Come on, it’s just around a week before the congressmen and senators end terms and a new set starts their offices. Well, half of the Senate would still be there. Some of this half may or would most probably run for reelection three years from now. That’s perhaps one major issue that they’re wary of. They have to position themselves on the side on which victory would be most certain. Can’t the Vice President’s lawyers wait for next week. It’s going to be a new Congress in a few days’ time anyway. But, I guess, it’s a matter of having the request dated on a certain date so that it appears that they exercised due and prompt diligence – a stark contrast to all the delaying that their allies had been up to for months.

If they had been slacking off, across the world, someone was itching to slide in; and slid in to the fray he did. When videos told about President Trump leaving early from the G7 summit, all giddy to join in the Israel-Iran conflict, I thought content creators were just twisting incidents to initiate humor, poking fun at the President. I thought, he wouldn’t want to join a war that he’s not directly a part of. Maybe, he just wasn’t comfortable anymore with Carney and Macron. Maybe, he wanted to go home quickly to have meetings with his intelligence top brass. Maybe, he just wants to be briefed firsthand; that’s all.

But, he did. He did bomb Iran; or rather, he did order the bombing of Iran. Where did that come from? Why did he have to? Maybe, eventually, along the road, he would have to, but I think it was much too soon, and may prove to be unnecessarily counterproductive.

Imagine that Israel and Iran were two guys, neighbors who suddenly get into a big, violent fistfight in the middle of the street, disrupting the peace in the neighborhood. Does the US who happens to be Israel’s friend throw a rock at Iran so there would be peace on the street? Is that even proper behavior? Well, I guess, among street thugs, that would be normally acceptable. But they aren’t gangstas, they are world leaders who should be exercising diplomacy for international peace and cooperation.

I expected (and I suppose, so did many of the world leaders and their nations’ citizens) that the US would keep a prudent stance, sending people to get the two warring nations on the negotiating table on some neutral country. Maybe, such measures would take a week or two. An attack on Iran would only be warranted if and when American military bases and/or facilities and/or citizens would be attacked first. Attack is launched when directly and blatantly provoked. But the US attack on Iran was unprovoked and unproductive. Just a few days in, a technically neutral party comes in and hits one party hard. What’s the deal with that?

As if that’s not mind-boggling enough, after making that hit, the US through Trump demands Iran’s unconditional surrender. Somehow, it’s funny. Is the expected response to those bombings from this nation with war-ready military and armaments, with a longstanding spiritual grudge and vendetta against Jews and Israel which to them is an abomination in the middle of Islamic countries, just simply to lay down arms and surrender without conditions? As President Donald Trump had put it on Democrats using immigrants for votes, “not gonna happen”. The world just saw that on the ceasefire which automatically ceased as soon as they left the negotiating table. Now, the two are at each other’s throats again, and this time, harder than before. Not only that, the demand for unconditional surrender is topped off with calls for regime change, basically saying to the government of Iran which happens to be the Ayatollah that he should be ousted from position. That is not only disrespectful; that’s actually a grave insult. How does Trump expect peace with intimidations and insults?

Instead of unconditional surrender, what does the US get? They just got the pledge of revenge from the Ayatollah and the likelihood of Russia supplying warheads to Iran. That’s just the ones on media. We don’t know what China is cooking up or what moves the Arab nations could make, especially with Israel in the picture.

For now, let’s pray for the OFWs in and around that area to safely come home, and let’s brace ourselves for the oil price hikes.

Ezekiel 38:2: ““Son of man, set your face against Gog, of the land of Magog, the chief prince ofMeshek and Tubal; prophesy against him”