But it may be worse than that. It may be the beginning of a cycle of destruction caused by the deranged vision of one man.
In a stunning article featured in The Guardian, some commanders are carrying an “end-of-times” message into the fray. One officer reported that his commander “urged us to tell our troops that this was ‘all part of God’s divine plan … that President Trump has been anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon and mark his return to Earth.”
Even the most ardent MAGA supporters must know that it has never been the policy of America to initiate wars.
Yes, there have been clandestine operations that presidents have undertaken in the past.
Yes, we have engaged in conflicts that bogged down in the jungles of Vietnam or the deserts of Afghanistan. But we have never boasted about kidnapping foreign leaders or decapitating regimes just because we had the ability to do so.
The real cost of Trump’s adventurism in the Mideast is that it validates behaviors that were, until now, reserved for the worst blood-thirsty leaders in history."
Trump’s war on Iran is an unconstitutional assault on American democracy | Opinion
By Mark S. Singel