- Ten rationales for Trump’s war on Iran;
- While some insist it’s not a “war”;
- Promoting the war with movie clips and video games;
- Cuba is next, they’re now saying, as predicted;
- Who is Hegseth to declare the US as a Christian nation?;
- A creepy Oval Office photo of “laying hands”;
- John Pavlovitz on how God did not ordain Trump, alleged Christians did;
- How some conservatives influencers want to return to the days of McCarthysim;
- The obvious point that renewable energy sources would avoid problems in the Strait of Hormuz;
- And Trump’s obvious tell he has no idea what he’s doing: everything is two weeks away.
Back to our regularly scheduled programming. No one in Washington knows what they’re doing. And conservatives are regressive.
The Atlantic, Marie-Rose Sheinerman and Isabel Ruehl: Six Days of War, 10 Rationales, subtitled “The administration has laid out a buffet of reasons for Operation Epic Fury—take your pick.”
On the third day of the war in Iran, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth called Operation Epic Fury the “most-precise aerial operation in history.” A difficult claim to fact-check. More difficult still has been parsing statements from the White House and the Pentagon to figure out, with any exactitude, why we are at war in the first place. So far, the Trump administration has offered at least 10 separate rationales in just six days.
Imminent threat. To prevent their nukes. To halt the militias. Regime change. Election interference (they did it to us). World peace. For the grandkids. Preemptive hit. Fulfill God’s purpose (a useful go-to for anything). And, the Israelis made us do it.
