Bomb first, plan later

🤔What could possibly go wrong?

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Remember during Trump’s first term when military leaders were a moderating influence on our Psychopath-in-Chief?

Well, during this go-round, Trump has made a point of finding pliable “leaders” who won’t question his most dangerous wants and desires.

Look no further than Pete “Wargasm” Hegseth and the military leaders touting the war on Iran as “all part of God’s divine plan.” (aka: Armageddon.)

Well that doesn’t seem like a very well thought out regime-change plan.

It’s about nukes. It’s about freedom. It’s about regime change. It’s about democracy! It’s about Tremendous Social Media Content!™️

Actually, it’s about whatever they want it to be about as long as they can use all those neat weapons that go boom!

And if we’re running out of boom-devices, Trump is hard at work meeting with war profiteers defense contractors at the White House. (The Reuters article that is linked here offers handy links to current stock prices of the death merchants at the meeting.)

Sadly, my earlier cartooning career began with warning about the folly of bombing people into democracy and now here I am doing it again.

(This cartoon is a none-too-subtle riff on the old saying, “the beatings will continue until morale improves.” Same principle, different usage.)

I never thought we’d be in a situation that was even more unhinged, illegal and reprehensible than what George W. Bush did in Iraq.

Sigh. The good ol’ days, when America’s president had the decency to lie to Congress about why we needed to declare war.

Now, our very own dictator just goes ahead and does it.

. . . And his sycophantic Secretary of Defense gleefully talks about how our Iran attack delivered twice the firepower of the “shock and awe” opening attack of 2003 Iraq.

Meanwhile, Israel keeps bombing Lebanon and Iran continues to lob attack drones at surrounding Gulf countries.

Something tells me this is going to get worser and worser . . .

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-Mark