Well, 'twas 'bout time for another U.S. war and global meltdown anyway

Judiciousness calls for the United States to militarily aid an ally or honorable friend undergoing a grinding invasion or confronting the threat of imminent annihilation. Israel meets neither of these conditions. Its treacherous behavior is unaligned with, and harmful to, American interests; its hegemonic land grabs are Putinesque and its Palestinian policy is more than dishonorable, it's genocidal. There is no foreign invasion of Israel, nor was it facing annihilation.

Its grievances are astoundingly hypocritical. Last Thursday, Israel denounced Iran's bombing of a hospital as a "war crime"; last month, the World Health Organization assessed that Israel has destroyed or damaged 94% of Gaza's hospitals. Thursday also found Israel bemoaning Iran's use of cluster munitions on a populated area (no deaths, no injuries); Israel used cluster bombs in Lebanon, causing nearly 200 casualties. Unlike more than 100 other countries, it refuses to ban their use.

Yet the granddaddy of Israel's tartuffery is its fanatical intolerance of any Middle East nation's development, even potential or merely suspected development, of a nuclear bomb — addendum of false piety; Israel excludes itself. The region's lone superpower possesses at least 90 plutonium-based nuclear warheads and enough split-able atoms to build hundreds more. With that big stick and oodles of U.S. armaments it has carried out "preventive" strikes on Iraq, Syria and, before now, Iran.

While Israel has more nuclear warheads than North Korea — a principal yet unbombed and unbothered (unlike Iran) U.S. bogeyman (pre-Trump love) because of its radioactivity —Bibi and Mr. Kim are at parity in being unhinged. But at least the latter refrains from his counterpart's perpetual campaigns of mass murder, calculated collective starvation, wholesale material destruction, forcible relocations and illegal quarantines against his contiguous neighbor.

Such are the grotesque acts of guardian America's contemptible ward — likewise impossibly incorrigible since its 1948 birth and immediate adoption by a U.S. president against the vigorous opposition of his most knowledgable foreign policy advisers. Surrounding America's present debacle centered on the regional issue of nuclear weaponry is a telling instance of 20-year-old Israel's insufferability (and parental promiscuousness).

In July 1969, Secretary of State Kissinger sent President Nixon the now-declassified memo, "When the Israelis signed the contract buying the Phantom aircraft last November, they committed themselve a [sic] 'not to be the first to introduce nuclear weapons into the Near East.' But it was plain from [a recent U.S. intel] discussion that they interpreted that to mean that 'they could possess nuclear weapons as long as they did not test, deploy, or make them public.'"

In the much fuller, single-spaced document, Kissinger called bullshit on Israel, relating to POTUS that the intel group then notified its government that "we believe mere 'possession' constitutes 'introduction' and that Israel's introduction of nuclear weapons by our definition would be cause for us to cancel the contract." History's all-too-familiar, fait accompli chapter, however, was nesting in The NY Times by December 1968: "Delivery of the [5o] jets will start in late 1969 as Israel has requested." (In newspaper's archives.)

This morning's NYT: "Amid swirling questions over what comes next, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was asked [in a news conference] about concerns of a prolonged conflict. 'This is most certainly not open-ended,'" he replied. For all we know, the boozy, national-security-secrets-advertising, universally addled and likely psychotic moron believes what no one else does.

On Israel's horizon there was no portent of an Iranian mushroom cloud, its imagery conjured by the little country's Dick Cheney-diseased Prime Minister & Causal Calamity Thugs. Their genuine obsession and real objective: regime change. But it's the big country of partnered legerdemain and neocon-disabled intellect destined to pick up most of the misadventurous tab.

Iran's vastly discontented populace is now smothering the nasty theocracy with love and millions of kisses by patriot-waving flags — every aggressor's never-fails, self-defeating phenomenon understood by all, excepting colossal nitwits like Hegseth and his boss, Mr. Calamity himself. Iran's hideous "faith leaders" are stronger than ever. And obliterated or damaged — whatever — their operational nuclear program will resume. Iran also has a location-unknown, 400kgs stash of weapons-grade uranium and intel reports that the Natanz facility under construction, deeper than deep Fordo's, may be buster bomb-impenetrable.

Meanwhile, the U.S. can look forward to its Middle East military bases being bombed by Iran, which will seem pinpricks compared to the so-far indescribably immense chaos caused by Iran's closing the Strait of Hormuz, which its parliament just voted to do. If it's true that misery loves company as much as Iranians now love their government, then America is about to positively adore the world — for there goes one-fifth of the globe's oil supply. Stay tuned, news at 11, gas prices to soar, stock markets to crash, hello worldwide recession (or worse).

The U.S. bombing mission against Israel's prime bugaboo was labeled Operation Midnight Hammer, a tough guy-sounding epithet suited perfectly for the insecure, former podiatrist-hunting commander in chief. Iran's counter-operation may well be titled Daylight Decimation. Its logo, a boomerang.