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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“If we can’t unite to stop mass murder of innocents, when are we going to unite?”
I ask myself that daily as I watch indifferent Americans pass by. One thing that has changed in this mess is that Israel is at last seeing consequences to what it does but we Americans if we don’t pay attention to the news have only the higher price of gasoline as a consequence to Trump’s madness.
For Israelis, going after Iran is something they have been primed for. Polls show they approve of the war on Iran by 90%.
Here, far from being primed, we have the terrible history of Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq yet apathy reigns. The only progress I see, and it is significant, is the reversal of sympathy for Israel made possible by Israel’s slaughter in Gaza. The future end of the special relationship of tail wagging dog is clear, but our present terrible position demands impeachment and should have us all out on the street demanding it.
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