Trump's war on Iran is America's shame, and the world's failure

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Trump’s war on Iran is America’s shame, and the world’s failure
Trump's attack on Iran is an act of vanity and desperation, fueled by America's collective moral blindness

By Andrew O'Hehir
Executive Editor
Published February 28, 2026 3:02PM (EST)


(Salon) Well, the woke Marxist liberals wouldn’t give him the Nobel Peace Prize, and wouldn’t even let him have Greenland as a treat. So, really, what choice did he have?

The joke isn’t funny, I agree. That’s because it comes too close to the truth. There are various ways to understand the U.S.-Israeli bombing attack on Iran launched on Saturday morning, which according to some reports has killed the Iranian regime’s senior religious leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. None of them have anything to do with democratic legitimacy or coherent geopolitical strategy. This pseudo-war is based on false or dubious premises, has little or no popular support and professes unclear or unachievable goals.

This disastrous turn of events should shame America, and shame the world. Indeed, it exposes yet again the disgraceful failures of both American politics and global diplomacy, as well as the unrelenting and apparently incurable moral blindness of U.S. foreign policy. Whether “we,” to use an objectionable term of art, actually learned anything from 20 years of catastrophic and self-destructive war in Iraq and Afghanistan has now been decisively answered in the negative.

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Anyone who persuaded themselves to vote for Trump based on his supposed peacenik or isolationist philosophy — may Maureen Dowd’s 2016 column on “Donald the Dove” live on in infamy — was volunteering to get rolled like the proverbial drunken rube at the county fair. We know that much, and we should also know by now that for Trump, the entire drama is about him. ...................(more)

https://www.salon.com/2026/02/28/trumps-war-is-americas-shame-and-the-worlds-failure/