Who’s Up for War?

We have a known sex offender in charge of the most powerful “war” weapons on the planet, carrying out another fake U.S. Mideast “war” upon defenseless people — it is 2026 and we are right on track in our evolutionary process. A known sex offender and “war” monger running the world.

If the war was planned better, with clear “objectives,” would you approve?

Here’s a good little “war” tidbit. Trump said he knew that Iran was planning attack, so this was his justification for putting the “war” on Iran into motion. But in 2002 the U.S. government told the entire world that it was planning an attack (a “war”) upon Iraq. No need to keep it a secret that the U.S. was a clear “imminent threat” to Iraq in 2002, since Iraq couldn’t hurt the United States.

Based on Trump and Netanyahu logic, you have the right to slaughter people if they are an “imminent threat.” In 2003, when the Iraq “war” was put into action, the Iraqis had every right to bomb the U.S. mainland with an “air war” the way Israel and the U.S. are now doing to Iran.

Whenever you dissect “war,” you can’t help exposing its absurd and murderous nature: the freedom to not make sense combined with the freedom to kill.

If you approach Trump’s Iran “war,” but then also oppose the way Hegseth is fighting it, his ignoring the acceptable “rules of engagement” — what you are doing is counter-productive, you are actually giving Trump and Hegseth a way to do their “war” that you oppose “correctly, if they do it using acceptable “rules of engagement.”

If you oppose a “war” and then oppose the way they do the “war,” you are not just empowering the doers of the “war” you oppose, you’re also empowering “war” as a whole, empowering it to exist by its self as the freedom to kill if the killing is done using acceptable “rules of engagement.” You reinforce the illusion that “war” can exist as its own thing.

FRANK ERICKSON, Minneapolis, Minn.