Trump’s Iran War is Built on Lies and Fantasies
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The White House seems to have no clear objective in mind, let alone a plan to achieve an endgame for the violence it has unleashed
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Trump’s Iran War is Built on Lies and Fantasies The White House seems to have no clear objective in mind, let alone a plan to achieve an endgame for the violence it has unleashed By Mac William Bishop Mac William Bishop Contact Mac William Bishop on X Contact Mac William Bishop by Email View all posts by Mac William Bishop March 2, 2026 When America and Israel started a new war on Saturday, they quickly succeeded in killing Iran ’s supreme leader, the 86-year-old Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. This achievement prompted a burst of chest-thumping acclamation from a braying mob of war enthusiasts — those who Robert Graves, the World War I soldier and poet, memorably described as “the froth of the city.” “The thoughtless and ignorant scum / Who hang out the bunting when war is let loose / And for victory bang on a drum,” Graves wrote, observing the euphoria of his countrymen who never had to fight — first when the war began in 1914, and then when Armistice was announced in November 1918. For almost 50 years, the Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States have been locked in a shadowy conflict that has ebbed and pulsed in fitful cycles of violence through eight U.S. presidents. Now, the U.S. has chosen to turn that conflict into open, direct war — but no one in the government seems to have a clear objective in mind, let alone a plan to achieve an endgame. The Trump administration’s initial justification for launching the war was that there was an “imminent” threat Iran would launch missiles against American forces in the region. Setting aside the fact that those forces were being built up for the obvious purpose of attacking Iran, by the end of the weekend even this flimsy construct was revealed as a transparent lie in congressional briefings. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, speaking at a press conference on Monday, tweaked the casus belli , saying action was required because Iran was building a “conventional shield” to protect its nuclear program. Presumably, this is the s...
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