Reportedly, the Fordow mountain nuclear enrichment site has been hit with 12 bunker buster bombs, each weighing 15 tons. It may be too early to tell, but by all indications Khameini’s nuclear program has been essentially closed.
That is the good part of the story.
The bad:
– POTUS authorized this action without seeking let alone receiving any kind of Congressional approval, as is required by the US Constitution to preserve the balance of power in the US government (and specifically, to make sure it is really the people’s will to go war). This action is the latest in an unimaginably long line of offenses against the US Constitution committed by POTUS and it does not bode well for the special relationship between the USA and Israel. Israel needs an ally governed by a sane, competent leader who respects the US Constitution as the source document that truly made America great.
– Bibi is showing no signs of ending the war now that the Iranian nuclear program has been closed. Ever since October 7, Bibi has used and abused the public’s trust in the Israeli government’s commitment to our security, to create a seemingly endless wartime scenario – the only scenario in which his fragile coalition of corrupt populists tenuously continues to exist, investigations and elections are continuously postponed for “after the war,” and he himself stays out of jail. Furthermore, while the reasons for action in both Gaza and Iran may be justified – Hamas needs to be neutralized, the ayatollah can not get nukes – we sit in our bomb shelters and bunkers without any guarantees or confidence that the actions themselves are carried out in a strategic, effective, or moral manner.
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War is primitive sht that goes back millions of years in our history as a species. I appreciate the necessity of sometimes needing to kill before being killed, in this primitive world in which we choose to live, but I do not celebrate it.
I pray for peace, for myself, my family, my community, my city, my nation, my region, my species, all sentient beings.
May we all continue evolving towards the stars.
May none of us need to go back into a bomb shelter today.