Only We Can Bomb It

W.J. Astore

The U.S. Empire, Thrashing and Lashing Out as It Declines

President Donald Trump has promised to bomb Yemen for a “long time.” Trump is a real president now. Presidents become “real” when they bomb something. Remember how Trump was praised by the U.S. mainstream media when he launched missiles against Syria in 2017?

Back in 2017, I wrote this: The launch of 59 expensive cruise missiles against a Syrian airfield did little to change the actions of the Assad government. Nor did it knockout the airfield. Yet it was spun by Trump as a remarkable victory. In his words, “We’ve just fired 59 missiles, all of which hit, by the way, unbelievable, from, you know, hundreds of miles away, all of which hit, amazing. It’s so incredible. It’s brilliant. It’s genius. Our technology, our equipment, is better than anybody by a factor of five. I mean look, we have, in terms of technology, nobody can even come close to competing.”

“Only we can bomb it” should replace “In God we trust” as the U.S. national motto.

America’s best and brightest (who were never quite that) have become the worst and dimmest. And that’s true whether the president is blue or red, Biden or Trump. The problem is our “leaders” have no moral principles. No integrity. No sense of right and wrong. They’re all about power and sending “messages” through bombing. Or sending tons and tons of bombs to Israel so that the Zionists can send “messages” to the Palestinians. The main message: begone or be dead.

Even as our “leaders” do this, they seek to solidify a mythic history of the U.S. (see video above) where America is exceptional in its rightness and where they (the leaders) are the ones who grant us our rights (such as freedom of speech) when these rights are inalienable. Indeed, rather than protecting our rights, they want to control them, limit them, and make them obedient and subservient to power.

Rulers’ ideas rule. And our rulers’ ideas are increasingly toxic.

With democracy already deeply compromised in America, we’re witnessing and experiencing the thrashing and lashing out of a declining American empire, not only externally but in the “homeland.” 

Readers, what do you make of all this?

5 thoughts on “Only We Can Bomb It”

  1. Back in the Vietnam war days, the country went into a crisis due to a popular rebellion against dead bodies coming home for no good reason. We the people were affected and reacted.

    Now we have a great majority of the electorate that did not vote for Trump. He falsely thinks he has a mandate and is proceeding to chop away not only at government agencies but at people whose views or way of life he doesn’t like, the perfect example being trans people and pro-Palestinian demonstrators. It is vindictive and destructive, done with an arrogance that is breathtaking. Significantly, the military budget is not being touched, the area of spending that is undoubtedly the most wasteful.

    The result is, once again, we the people being affected and reacting. Trump’s reign of terror will be short lived and effectively terminated with the 2026 by-election. This will become more apparent with each week that passes. The only question is – will Trump lash out wildly when he sees the inevitable coming? A Supreme Court decision against him will be the test, but even if the SC bows to him, the people will not.

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    1. Trump’s “reign of terror will be … terminated with the 2026 by-election” assumes that there will BE an election in 2026.

      Which assumes that the United States will still exist on its 250th Birthday on July 4, 2026, 462 days from today.

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      1. I share your concerns about 2026. Even if the elections are held, just how valid, how representative will they be, given Trump’s and Project 2025’s conniving to suppress voting rights and access, and to undercut further the Voting Rights Act, if anything much remains of that.

        And then there is the matter of security of the cast ballots. Mail-in voting? By then the Postal Service will have been auctioned off to Musk, need more be said? Standing in line for hours on end will be the norm because the number of voting places will be reduced or understaffed.

        Yes, make government efficient by eliminating all the superfluous hassle of voting.

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        1. Like i said, XK: Before worrying about Election2026, let’s see if the United States still exists to celebrate its 250th Birthday on July 4, 2026, 460 days from today.

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  2. … we have a grave weakness in America, this intense need to be mighty

    … costing us resources other nations need not bear.. worse, it clouds our minds, our judgment, making us lesser people, more uncaring what is happening around our world to others

    … children growing up in this world, begin life with the disadvantage not knowing-realizing-seeing what America once was, and they are worse off for it

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