President Trump’s foreign policy does not serve the American people. After campaign promises to end unnecessary foreign wars, recent events demonstrate that Trump is instead following the bipartisan Neocon path concocted in the late 1990’s to regime change seven Middle East countries into pro-Israel regimes. Remember the non-existent WMD in Iraq? It was a fraud perpetrated on Americans and Iraqis—resulting in an expensive “forever war” that killed a million. Iraq was first on a list of Mideast countries to “regime change” for Israel—America’s proxy. After Iraq, there was Libya, Lebanon, Sudan, Syria and Somalia. Iran is the last and most formidable and so far regime change has failed.
Trump wasted billions this week attacking Iran by mobilizing US armed forces to stage a show of “obliterating” Iran’s so-called “nuclear weapon program,” but no uranium release was detected indicating that operations had been moved. Subsequently, Iran’s counter-attack on Israel became unbearable. Trump is attempting an Israel-Iran ceasefire.
Iran’s regime holds for now. Regime change in Iran was a prerequisite to encircle China for a planned US war against China in 2027. The world loses if this conflict causes nuclear arms proliferation for countries that see the US empire abandoning international law and aggressively attacking countries at will—either through Israel or directly. We face a future made unnecessarily more expensive and dangerous by our president–unhinged from the rule of law domestically and internationally and following the path of dying empires—military adventurism. Empire and democracy are incompatible. Americans want democracy and to meet needs at home while Trump chooses war. If the Courts, the Constitution, the American people and Congress fail to reset priorities to rebuild America instead of trying to regain post-Cold War world dominance, America will face the de facto punishment of our unsustainable debt and flight from the US dollar.
-Cynthia Munley Salem
