The debate simmers on over whether Donald Trump's bombing last week of the supposed locations of of Iran's nuclear stockpile was a spectacular success, as Trump and his courtiers claim, or a dangerous, high-priced fiasco, as attested to by a Pentagon assessment of the operation that was leaked by we don't know who to CNN and the New York Times. According to the leaked Pentagon report, the sixteen or so bunker-buster bombs (at $5 million a pop) and the more than a hundred additional support bombers, fighter jets, tankers, and surveillance aircraft used in the operation managed to make mere dents in the fortresses where Iran probably isn't even storing their uranium anyway, and, far from destroying Iran's nuclear development, set it back maybe by a couple of months, tops. But really, the question shouldn't be whether the bombing was a success or not, but rather exactly why the United States had to bomb Iran at this moment? Iran was in the midst of a bombing war with Israel, started by Israel; for it was Israel who began lobbing the bombs at Iran, purportedly because Israel, which has its own nuclear arsenal, didn't want Iran to have one, too. So Israel dropped bombs on Iranian military facilities, but made sure to also bomb Iranian civilians. The Iranians, of course then retaliated by bombing Israel, likewise including civilians. And on both sides people were displaced and died: But how did this spectacle of destruction and death involve us here in the United States? Had Iran recently provoked us? Threatened us? Last we heard, we were tossing back and forth with Iran the possibility of negotiations, and attacking that country was not much more than a balloon Donald Trump was floating around, the way he's always floating around some or another balloon. So why, exactly, did Trump suddenly give the order to get all up in the conflict between the two warring countries, and why choose to spend a few billion U.S. dollars to try and destroy Iran's not-yet-existent nuclear capability over Israel's already existent nuclear warheads? After all, Iran has been oppressing its people for decades, while Israel has been engaged in the oppression, starvation, and genocide of the Palestinians for just as long. Each country appears to want to eradicate the other. Why choose to disarm one over the other? But this is, of course a rhetorical question. It's common knowledge why Donald Trump acted as he did, isn't it? References:
https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/27/politics/bunker-buster-bomb-isfahan-iran https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/24/politics/intel-assessment-us-strikes-iran-nuclear-sites https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-journalists-reveal-sources-iran-intel-report-1235375074/ https://www.google.com/search?q=giw+much+did+us+bombing+of+iran+cost&rlz=1C1OPNX_enUS1166US1166&oq=giw+much+did+US+bombing+of+Iran+&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUqCQgBECEYChigATIGCAAQRRg5MgkIARAhGAoYoAEyCQgCECEYChigATIHCAMQIRiPAjIHCAQQIRiPAtIBCjE2OTE2ajBqMTWoAgiwAgHxBTg1Dw5wjVEC8QU4NQ8OcI1RAg&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 https://www.icanw.org/nuclear_arsenals
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