“A whole civilization will die tonight.”
He said that out loud. Posted it. With a blessing attached.
Let me be precise. The President of the United States just announced, in public, with casual syntax, that he expects a civilization to be destroyed, shrugged at it, and closed with “God Bless the Great People of Iran.”
The people he just watched die.
This is the logic of empire dressed in the language of liberation. “Regime change” isn’t a policy. It’s a euphemism for what happens when the most powerful military on earth decides your government has the wrong people in it.
We’ve seen this film. Iraq. Libya. Afghanistan. The credits always roll the same way. Rubble, refugees, and a decade of sectarian violence we pretend we didn’t cause.
I was in Iraq in 2005. I know what “revolutionarily wonderful” looks like on the ground after we’ve been there. It looks like a father carrying his kid through a checkpoint. It looks like infrastructure that doesn’t work and institutions that don’t exist. It looks like a power vacuum that someone always fills, and it’s never Thomas Jefferson.
47 years of extortion? Sure. The mullahs are thugs. Say it plainly. But 80 million Iranians didn’t build that regime and they don’t get to just walk away from the rubble we’re about to make of their country because a guy in Mar-a-Lago typed “WHO KNOWS?” in all caps.
Killing civilians to liberate them is not a moral category. It’s a war crime with good PR.
The 6th Commandment doesn’t have a foreign policy exception. Neither does “blessed are the peacemakers.” If your theology permits this, check your theology.
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