Here Comes the President . . .

The President of the United States, Benjamin Netanyahu, arrives in town this week to “confer” with his viceroy, Donald Trump. That is, to give him his orders. Everyone understands the nature of the relationship, especially those who refuse to acknowledge it.

The real president of the United States instructed his viceroy to start this war and now he is back (again) to instruct him to expand it, probably. Iran stubbornly refuses to accept defeat since it has won – so far – by not losing. The serial bombing hasn’t resulted in the displacement of the Iranian government or the return in triumph and rose pedals of the old Shah’s son, who would serve as another of Netanyahu’s viceroys. Nor has it opened the Strait. The one that was open before Trump acted on the orders of his president that’s been closed by the understandably irritated Iranians.

Trump says he wants a return to the status quo ante – that is, for the Strait to be open, as it was before it was closed in retaliation for starting this stupid, evil war. It’d be hilarious were it not so consequential. Billions have been lost – and at least 18 Americans killed as well as hundreds now admitted to have been injured (and many times more Iranians killed and injured; it is a measure of the psychosis of the United States that the people killed and injured by the United States in a war of choice are given next to no thought, as if they were just “statistics,” as Stalin regarded the people he had killed). And Trump wants the return of the pre-war status quo ante.

You can almost hear Charlie Sheen saying winning!

More such may be coming in the wake of the president’s arrival in Washington. Obviously, he is here to give his viceroy new instructions. These instructions will not be to admit (privately) that the war is lost and thus it’s time to cut losses before the losses become such that we lose everything – though that may be the true ultimate purpose of this stupid, evil war. The imbecility of it strongly argues that it could be. Trump is, after all, both viceroy and Golem – of interests that see the United States as a drying up milch cow whose time at the milking stall is just about over. And what happens to old, dried-up milk cows? They get sent to the cat food factory.

Anyhow, the president and his viceroy are almost certainly discussing the other options they still have to “win” this war. One is the sending of American cannon fodder to Iran. This cannon fodder will, of course, not include the likes of Ben Shapiro or Barron Trump. Col. Doug MacGregor – who is experienced in these matters – thinks it would be an imbecility almost beyond imagining to attempt to sic American ground troops on the Iranians, because (among other things) getting them anywhere near Iran in numbers adequate to do the job would be effectively impossible given Iran has the means to prevent their assembling for an invasion anywhere near Iran. Never mind the support logistics that would be necessary. Never mind the political fallout that will hit like a dirty bomb if American flag-draped coffins begin coming back to America in the hundred or thousands, no matter how loudly or often they play the Lee Greenwood song.

The president and his viceroy may want Americans to fight for Israel but few Americans are interested in fighting for Israel. Much less dying for it.

So that option is probably out. That implies the other option is likely to be the one chosen. Col. MacGregor says “the path” to the use of nuclear weapons has already been laid down. The president and his viceroy have framed Iran possessing nuclear weapons as constituting an existential threat – which is a silly as it is psychotic given the existential threat the United States and Israel represent to not just Iran but to the whole goddamned world. At any rate, if it is accepted that Iran possessing even a single nuclear weapon (even as a deterrent to the thousands of nuclear weapons possessed by the United States and Israel) constitutes an existential threat, then use of nuclear weapons to neutralize that “threat” can be justifed.

No doubt that is the gist of the conversation – if you want to call it that – taking place right now between the president and his viceroy.

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