US-Israel And Iran War

106 Day Iran War So Called Agreement No Improvement Over Obama 2015 Iran Deal!

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Donald Trump has “Obama Derangement Syndrome”, unwilling to give former President Barack Obama any credit or respect in any way.

Clearly, Trump is extremely jealous of Obama’s intellectual brilliance, widespread popularity, and his charisma and accomplishments, knowing he can never match him in any way.

And being that Trump is a white supremacist and racist just makes it more infuriating, as Trump has now, in desperation, seemingly come to an an agreement after 15 weeks of war, massive spending, high inflation, and the loss of 14 servicemen and women, that brings America back to the original Obama Iran Deal, negotiated with five other nations in 2015.

Iran and the nuclear weapons issue is not resolved, with the only “accomplishment” being the killing of much of the Iranian government leadership, but with replacement by others who have no desire to cave in to the US or Israel.

And Israel is alienated, and has no plan to accept the so called agreement, which supposedly will open up the Strait of Hormuz, but little else.

Donald Trump’s foreign “adventure” has been an unmitigated disaster, but he will try to convince Americans otherwise, and hope that his party continues to control both houses of Congress.

His own party is calling for details on the proposed agreement with Iran, and for the Congress to have a role in its acceptance, something Trump is clearly unwilling to promote.

The idea that Iran may benefit financially in the proposed agreement will be a center of controversy by many members of Trump’s party, as well as the opposition Democrats.

If the Democrats gain control, hell will be paid by Trump and his corrupt Cabinet and other Republican sycophants.

The biggest danger is Trump, in desperation, following through on the threat of the suspension of the Writ of Habeus Corpus, and invocation of the Insurrection Act, and interference in the Midterm Elections of 2026.

America is in a dire situation as we near the elections, and the feared destruction of American Democracy and the Rule Of Law, which must be resisted in every way possible!

Hints Of Split Between Trump And Vance, Reminding Us Of Other Such Splits Between Presidents And Vice Presidents!

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There are growing signs of a split developing between President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance over the Iran War.

Vance has been unusually quiet and in the background, since the now 18 day war against Iran began on February 28.

Of course, Vance is NOT stating his disagreement over strategy and tactics openly, but his demeanor and public utterances hint at a growing distance of Vance from Trump.

Vance was clearly an isolationist in his brief term in the US Senate, and made public statements for years of an “America First” mentality, wanting America to step out of a major role in world affairs.

Vance was quick to condemn Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in February 2025 when he was at the White House, but now he sits mostly silently at White House meetings, and his body language indicates discomfort.

Vance is certainly thinking ahead to the thought of the 2028 Presidential election, and trying to figure out how to manage a likely challenge from someone he calls his “friend”, but clearly is very ambitious and desirous of running for the Presidency.

That person is Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who has been promoting the intervention in Iran in a major way, although consistently changing the reasoning and strategy of that war.

This is not the first time a President and Vice President have been at odds over policy and approach to governing.

Earlier examples are:

Thomas Jefferson under John Adams 1797-1801
Aaron Burr under Thomas Jefferson 1801-1805
John C. Calhoun under John Quincy Adams 1825-1829
John C. Calhoun under Andrew Jackson 1829-1832
Thomas Marshall under Woodrow Wilson 1913-1921
Charles G. Dawes under Calvin Coolidge 1925-1929
John Nance Garner under Franklin D. Roosevelt 1933-1941
Henry A. Wallace under Franklin D. Roosevelt 1941-1945
Hubert Humphrey under Lyndon B. Johnson 1965-1969
Al Gore under Bill Clinton 1993-2001
Dick Cheney under George W. Bush 2001-2009
Mike Pence under Donald Trump 2017-2021

The first four situations in the early years of the American Republic were major issues, as was Garner under FDR, while the others were more hidden or “behind the scenes”, more recognized after the fact.

It will be fascinating to see how this growing division between Trump and Vance play out, and whether it will have an effect on who Trump endorses for the Republican nomination in 2028, assuming that Trump does not leave office by incapacity or death before that election.

Major Realities Of Iran War Hit Home!

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It is very clear that Donald Trump, Pete Hegseth, Marco Rubio and others in the leadership of the US government did NOT carefully plan the attack on Iran.

They allowed the inexperienced real estate developers, Jared Kushner (Trump’s son-in-law) and Steve Witkoff, to make judgments on the seriousness, or supposed lack of it, of the Iranian diplomats they were negotiating with.

They failed to consider that Iran could block the Strait of Hormuz, creating an international crisis regarding oil and gasoline supplies, particularly causing harm to Asian allies, but also causing the greatest gasoline price crisis in many years for consumers in the United States. The entire international economy is affected by the US-Israeli war on Iran.

They failed to understand that when a nation is bombed, and mass casualities occur, it only stiffens the spine of that nation, as proved regularly in war, such as the Nazi bombing of the United Kingdom in World War II and the Al Qaeda September 11 attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon in the United States.

It promotes nationalism, including even those who might oppose the particular government in any nation, but there is the “rallying around the flag” mentality.

They failed to understand that if one kills the top leader, no matter how much he might be hated by many, it only makes the next leader, particularly if related to the same family, even more willing to resist.

So we have the example that Ayatollah Khamenei was replaced by his son, and his son not only lost his father, but also his mother, his wife, and his son. So what would make one consider that the new Ayatollah would be willing to negotiate after such a heavy personal loss?

What Donald Trump and his top advisers have done is create a nightmare scenario, which now includes the strong likelihood that there will be terrorist attacks around the world, and particularly in the United States.

Desire for revenge will endanger all Americans, and particularly, the Jewish community, due to the alliance between Israel and the US on this decision to attack Iran.

Already, on Thursday, we saw attacks by terrorists on Virginia Commonwealth University and a Reform Jewish synagogue in Michigan, and more such threats are likely to occur.

But the answer is not to promote discrimination against Muslim Americans, just because some of their religious beliefs engage in terrorism.

Another horrendous reality is that civilian targets are being attacked, causing the deaths already of close to 200 children in Teheran, as well as attacks on historic and World Heritage sites that were never targets in past military conflicts.

So the long range implications of the Iran War are dire, to say the least!