War is over. Not.
- Mar 23
- 2 min read
Four weeks or less.
Those are the words of President Donald Trump, two days after Israel and the United States started bombing Iran on February 28. That’s how long he said the war would last.
“Four weeks or less.” As of today, 24 days - three weeks and a bit - have passed since Israel and the U.S. launched what they called a “decapitation strike.”
On the very first day of the war, Israel and America scored an impressive victory: they eliminated the monstrous Iranian dictator, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, along with high-ranking figures in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard (IRGC), security chief Ali Larijani, and intelligence minister Ismail Khatib. It was a masterful military manoeuvre. Could the war be over before it started?
"PEACE THROUGHOUT THE MIDDLE EAST AND, INDEED, THE WORLD!” Trump declared at the time on social media. It was time for Iranians to “take back” their country, he said.
Except, they didn’t. They haven’t. Instead, Iranians are (understandably) sheltering from the bombs that are raining down from above. And, as we edge closer to the four-week mark, it is evident that the war is not over. If anything, it has been escalating.
Iranian attacks on U.S. military bases and Arab states - along with Israel - have caused hundreds of millions in damage and scores of civilian deaths. Iran’s drones and missiles, too, have taken out energy infrastructure in places like Qatar, and effectively shut down the vital Strait of Hormuz to marine traffic.
Over the weekend, The New York Times ran a fascinating four-byline piece about how the war happened. Essentially, then Time’s investigation found, two things persuaded Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to act when they did: bad intelligence, and widespread hubris.
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I won't dignify the Israeli Prime Minister by calling him by his nickname. If the USA puts soldiers on the ground, we could have a very messy situation. It appears to me that the American presudent has underestimated Iran. Without doubt, it is not Venezuela.
He's not talking to anyone. No one believes a word of it.
The bombing has achieved exactly 2 things:
a) Destroying the credibility of the U.S. Executive Branch.
b) Needlessly creating another generation of hardline terrorists.
Under no circumstances should any Canadian resources be used to get involved with any of this. Mark Carney's time is better spent selling Chinese cars to blue collar workers in Oshawa.
25th amendment is the only way out.
I thought they’d have at least armed a proxy to start a ground invasion by now. Or have contact with an Iranian underground they could arm to dethrone this regime - that’s the only way to win. Obama had already successfullly stopped irans nuclear ambitions so without regime change they accomplish the same thing in a ceasefire that Obama accomplished without spending much aside from travel and security.
Did you ever think it would come to this? We are more doubtful of what the President of the U.S. (and Israel) say, than we are with what a terrorist regime says. And for good reason.