W.J. Astore
Preventing Mass Death Isn’t a Partisan Issue
APR 07, 2026
From Trump’s Truth Social Account:
This is madness. Unhinged madness. Imagine “blessing” the people of Iran while threatening to end their entire civilization.
Yesterday, I was watching the war movie, “Fury,” which does a decent job of showing some of the horrors of warfare. We get a few fairly honest scenes about war, as in the opening sequence of “Saving Private Ryan,” yet war coverage in our media portrays war as a bloodless video game.
Meanwhile, Trump tweets about mass murder and most in the media just seem to shrug. Mass murder!
For two decades I’ve been writing about America’s warrior nonsense and the increasing militarization of our country even as we’re kept deliberately isolated from war and all its horrors. It all seems like it’s coalesced into the nightmare we have today.
I was on Judge Napolitano’s show this morning, Judging Freedom, and I was somewhat at a loss to describe my reaction to this. If we can’t unite to stop mass murder of innocents, when are we going to unite?
Bracing Views 
All modern U.S. presidents eventually become war criminals. It’s practically in the job description. As usual, the current occupant of the Oval Office strips away all pretense, revealing the true villains for what they are. Your challenge has been echoed elsewhere: at what point do rank-and-file citizens mobilize to stop the maniacs among the elite? Like you, I don’t know the answer but hope it happens before any mushroom clouds appear.
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