Great analysis here - I'd also note that bombing is a strange way to bring about "peace." I appreciated Carlson pushing back against Cruz. And I suggest that even if Cruz was right, I'm not sure it blesses the nation of Israel to bomb another country - to foment additional regional strife. Violence is not the path to peace - not in the bible, not in the middle east, not anywhere.
Christian Zionists believe supporting Israel is of the utmost importance because of their view of eschatology. Christian Nationalists believe we are in a struggle for civilization itself with radical Islam, Iran being one of the chief leaders of radical Islam. The Neocons want a war to make more money for military-industrial complex. Now, that all of these influential groups in the US are in lock step, I fear World War III is around the corner--if not here already.
I am a Marine Corps Vietnam veteran. I packed up the personal gear of the very first KIA in my battalion. I'm going to list for you all the great things war does:
Eric, how about this news that I got from Heather Cox Richardson last night. Trump was complicit in Iran striking our AFB in Qatar. How do we wrap our heads around this, particularly as mainstream news media won't comment on it?
Last night Heather Cox Richardson wrote the following on her substack. It is appalling and I haven't seen one word of it on mainstream media.
"Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo also called out that at a press conference in the Netherlands last Wednesday, Trump said he had given Iran permission to bomb a U.S. air base in Qatar in retaliation for the U.S. strikes on Iran’s nuclear weapons program sites. “They said, ‘We’re going to shoot them. Is one o’clock OK?’ I said it’s fine,” Trump said. “And everybody was emptied off the base so they couldn’t get hurt, except for the gunners.”
Marshall expressed astonishment that this admission has attracted very little attention. He suggested that, if it is true, it represents “the most shocking dereliction of duty one could imagine for the commander-in-chief,” and he wondered how Republicans would have reacted if a Democratic president had said he had let “a foreign adversary fire on an American military installation.”
Thank you.
Great analysis here - I'd also note that bombing is a strange way to bring about "peace." I appreciated Carlson pushing back against Cruz. And I suggest that even if Cruz was right, I'm not sure it blesses the nation of Israel to bomb another country - to foment additional regional strife. Violence is not the path to peace - not in the bible, not in the middle east, not anywhere.
Christian Zionists believe supporting Israel is of the utmost importance because of their view of eschatology. Christian Nationalists believe we are in a struggle for civilization itself with radical Islam, Iran being one of the chief leaders of radical Islam. The Neocons want a war to make more money for military-industrial complex. Now, that all of these influential groups in the US are in lock step, I fear World War III is around the corner--if not here already.
I am a Marine Corps Vietnam veteran. I packed up the personal gear of the very first KIA in my battalion. I'm going to list for you all the great things war does:
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Eric, how about this news that I got from Heather Cox Richardson last night. Trump was complicit in Iran striking our AFB in Qatar. How do we wrap our heads around this, particularly as mainstream news media won't comment on it?
Last night Heather Cox Richardson wrote the following on her substack. It is appalling and I haven't seen one word of it on mainstream media.
"Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo also called out that at a press conference in the Netherlands last Wednesday, Trump said he had given Iran permission to bomb a U.S. air base in Qatar in retaliation for the U.S. strikes on Iran’s nuclear weapons program sites. “They said, ‘We’re going to shoot them. Is one o’clock OK?’ I said it’s fine,” Trump said. “And everybody was emptied off the base so they couldn’t get hurt, except for the gunners.”
Marshall expressed astonishment that this admission has attracted very little attention. He suggested that, if it is true, it represents “the most shocking dereliction of duty one could imagine for the commander-in-chief,” and he wondered how Republicans would have reacted if a Democratic president had said he had let “a foreign adversary fire on an American military installation.”
https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/june-29-2025?r=1gegyi&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
Wow! Thank you for sharing that disturbing news.