No President attacked Iran before because they knew regime change wasn’t possible unless we put boots on the ground. The Iranian people will pay for this for years, and so will we.
Negotiations were happening with Iran. It's the governments that are not acting in good faith. The People of the US & Iran, generally, want peace. We need to stop the corrupt control of manipulative "leaders" who are only looking out for themselves!!
We also need to look at the undelying causes which allowed this evil tyrant (Trump) to be elected president.
Sadly our citizenry has largely taken its comfort and its democracy for granted.
People don't vote, especially in local and state elections. People don't engage with one another. Human suffering is overlooked, not only globally, but within local communities. It does not brother us that two working parents can work hard all day long and still not earn enough to provide a sable household for their family.
Hey, stock market us going up. Things must be o.k. Our Attorney General recently said as much. If we believe it's ok for our neighbors, our fellow citizens to "choose," to live in such circumstances, we should not be surprised at the result.
The article on Iranian executions of these young men, and others without faces, for having an opinion makes me ill. To think if the tables were turned this could essentially be us/anyone in opposition our disgusting administration is extremely troubling. And as a mom of a young son whom I hope to have raised to stand up for injustice, I see his face in theirs and it's absolutely heartbreaking. America has blood on its hands. Our obsession with reality TV has officially turned into a nightmare.
I am in complete agreement with your perspective. We have walked backwards and continue to.
My heart goes out to the millions of peaceful people whose lives have been utterly destroyed by this and other egomaniacal power-drunk "leaders." It would seem that, having finally understood a Nobel Peace Prize is a non-starter, the only way to assure a legacy greater than a footnote is to be the absolute worst leader imaginable. I trust he won't live long enough to earn that moniker, but I'm afraid he'll give his utmost effort. Necessary, perhaps to apologize to the people of Cuba in advance.
What an insoluble stain on our collective humanity. This won't wash out, ever.
i don't understand the preoccupation with iran's nuclear capabilities. israel has nuclear arms and no one cares. and israel uses that capability so that it can do what it did in gaza and now again in lebanon. it reminds me of russia complaining about nato. nato was only a problem to russia if it wanted to return ukraine to colony status. then russia thought nato would interfere with its imperial ambitions.
if we are not willing to be fair about this we will have this horror
Thank you for focusing on the human toll and suffering of the Iranian people! Also I’m hoping Americans will finally peel back the veneer to reveal all the tech bros, white Christian nationalists, and fascist oligarchs behind Trump’s presidency, who are taking advantage of his disinterested mind. They are the engineers of this mayhem.
Negotiations were happening with Iran. It's the governments that are not acting in good faith. The People of the US & Iran, generally, want peace. We need to stop the corrupt control of manipulative "leaders" who are only looking out for themselves!!
We also need to look at the undelying causes which allowed this evil tyrant (Trump) to be elected president.
Sadly our citizenry has largely taken its comfort and its democracy for granted.
People don't vote, especially in local and state elections. People don't engage with one another. Human suffering is overlooked, not only globally, but within local communities. It does not brother us that two working parents can work hard all day long and still not earn enough to provide a sable household for their family.
Hey, stock market us going up. Things must be o.k. Our Attorney General recently said as much. If we believe it's ok for our neighbors, our fellow citizens to "choose," to live in such circumstances, we should not be surprised at the result.
My fear - the seeds of WWIIi are sewn.
The article on Iranian executions of these young men, and others without faces, for having an opinion makes me ill. To think if the tables were turned this could essentially be us/anyone in opposition our disgusting administration is extremely troubling. And as a mom of a young son whom I hope to have raised to stand up for injustice, I see his face in theirs and it's absolutely heartbreaking. America has blood on its hands. Our obsession with reality TV has officially turned into a nightmare.
Me too. I keep thinking about their moms, their families. It is so heartbreaking
I am in complete agreement with your perspective. We have walked backwards and continue to.
My heart goes out to the millions of peaceful people whose lives have been utterly destroyed by this and other egomaniacal power-drunk "leaders." It would seem that, having finally understood a Nobel Peace Prize is a non-starter, the only way to assure a legacy greater than a footnote is to be the absolute worst leader imaginable. I trust he won't live long enough to earn that moniker, but I'm afraid he'll give his utmost effort. Necessary, perhaps to apologize to the people of Cuba in advance.
What an insoluble stain on our collective humanity. This won't wash out, ever.
i don't understand the preoccupation with iran's nuclear capabilities. israel has nuclear arms and no one cares. and israel uses that capability so that it can do what it did in gaza and now again in lebanon. it reminds me of russia complaining about nato. nato was only a problem to russia if it wanted to return ukraine to colony status. then russia thought nato would interfere with its imperial ambitions.
if we are not willing to be fair about this we will have this horror
It is reasonable to not want Iran to have a nuclear bomb.
i should have started with saying that i agree with everything in Marianne's essay.
I pray that our goodness and our principles are held in trust for us, here and around the world.
It’s up to us, the people.
Thank you for focusing on the human toll and suffering of the Iranian people! Also I’m hoping Americans will finally peel back the veneer to reveal all the tech bros, white Christian nationalists, and fascist oligarchs behind Trump’s presidency, who are taking advantage of his disinterested mind. They are the engineers of this mayhem.