The inmates are running the asylum! That is what it looks like to me. Their entire administration is not based on anything that resembles sanity. They attacked Iran, a sovereign country, saying they were going to end Iran’s nuclear program. Can they end Iran’s nuclear program with one bombing mission? Does Trump think Iran is so terrified of him that they will just roll over? I remember the start of Desert Storm. We bombed Iraq constantly for days before we sent coalition troops into Iraq. It was a well-planned offensive that was effective in achieving the goals. It was also a very secretive offensive, not something that was talked about on social media. Wars are not won on social media. This was not even a war. This was a military attack on strategic military targets meant to deter Iran’s nuclear capabilities. To call this a war is just a joke. The fact that everything has been announced on social media by Trump makes it seem like just a way to manipulate the story.

Is this the end of conflicts in the Middle East? I doubt it. Two major powers have strong ties with Iran. One of course is Russia, and the other is China. What did Russia have to say about the attack by the United States? Russian Ambassador Nebenzia stated, “Washington reasserted that, to further the interests of its Israeli ally, it’s prepared not only to turn a blind eye to the killings of tens of thousands of Palestinian women, children, and older persons but also to gamble with the safety and well-being of humanity as a whole. Through their actions, the U.S. has opened Pandora’s box. No one knows what new catastrophes and suffering it will bring.” The deputy chairman of the Security Council of Russia said that Trump “has pushed the US into another war” and that countries are “ready to directly supply Iran with their own nuclear warheads.” China stated “if the Middle East is unstable, the world will not be at peace. If the conflict escalates further, not only will the conflicting parties suffer greater losses, but regional countries will suffer greatly.” China’s Ambassador to the UN stated that the U.S. attacks in Iran seriously violate the purposes and principles of the UN charter and international law. As well as Iran’s sovereignty and territorial integrity.”

I have written before on what I have called the first laws that were created. Those laws were not written on some tablet and delivered to Moses. These laws were meant to be discovered intellectually, and those are the laws of physics. For every action, there will be a reaction. Now let's go back to Desert Storm. Iraq had illegally invaded Kuwait. The United States formed a coalition of nations that drove Iraq out of Kuwait. Our involvement in that war led directly to the terrorist attacks of 9/11 because of our presence in the Middle East. It took years for the reaction, but the reaction happened, and 3000 Americans died, and the New York skyline was changed forever. Was the attack on 9/11 sponsored by a country? No! Most of the attackers were Saudi’s but Saudi Arabia did not sponsor the attack. Osama Bin Laden was a Saudi, but that did not mean the Saudi government had anything to do with the attack. Terror groups are not a country; they are an idea, and what ideas did our attack on Iran start?

9/11 happened over 10 years after Desert Storm, and I am sure the Bush administration never envisioned the things that were set in motion because of it. That is my point, we don’t know what things we set in motion. Our war on terror has never been a war against two traditional nations with a traditional military. We will never know if it is a war we have won because there will be no formal surrender. There will be no laying down of arms like after the World Wars. Terrorist organizations are formed from an idea or ideology. It is hard to defeat an idea with weapons. What it may take is a better idea.