The price of hubris
Well, here we are again, locked into a multi-trillion dollar Middle East war, this time on the whim of Donald Trump, enthusiastically egged on by Senator Lindsey Graham and Secretary of Defense Peter Hegseth. They want to show Iran and the rest of the world how tough they are.
But they’re not really tough, are they? No, they’re nice and safe in Washington D.C., sipping diet cokes, playing golf and glorifying war in front of the cameras, far from the reach of Iranian missiles. Meanwhile, our brave men and women in uniform — husbands, wives, mothers, fathers, sons and daughter (“suckers and losers,” according to the president) — are halfway across the world being killed and wounded.
Trump doesn’t seem to have any way out of the mess he’s made. Like Nixon with Vietnam, he seems willing to sacrifice more and more lives, just to keep himself from looking like a loser.
I wonder how many more American and Iranian families will lose a loved one because of this unforgivable hubris?