Tag: Israel
The finest military modern thinker, Maj Gen. J.F.C. Fuller, stated that the true object of war is not victory but the peace that follows the conflict. By that standard, the Trump-Netanyahu war against Iran and Lebanon is an embarrassing political failure and an economic disaster.
Trump, in his regime’s serial dishonesty, has reshaped the conventions of American diplomacy in the Israeli fashion. He has turned the U.S. into the same sort of pariah — never to be trusted.
And that flag is already the shroud soaked in the blood of new martyrs.
The U.S. and Israeli attacks on Iran have sparked intense debate over whether the attack is right or wrong from several perspectives: international law, morality, history, and realpolitik. At the center are questions of preemptive self-defense and humanitarian intervention.
