Amid all the speculation about whether Trump is going to wade into Israel's war on Iran, I seem to be missing something. The speculation centers on whether Trump will help Israel drop a 30,000 pound bunker buster bomb on Iran's underground nuclear facility where enriched uranium, essential for construction of a nuclear weapon, is created. Some of this is couched in terms of the U.S. "giving" Israel the bombs. Consensus seemas to be that no other weapon can do the job of burrowing into the underground facilities and blowing them up. But it also seems to be the case that Israel possesses no aircraft capable of delivering these enormous weapons. That task would have to be performed by American bombers. We're the only country that has these bombs, and the only one with the systems needed to deliver them. So, unless the U.S. is going to give Israel some of our most capable bombers outright, the bombs would have to be delivered using American aircraft operated by American crews.
In all this discussion, the thing I am missing - the thing I have heard literally no one mention - is that we are not at war with Iran, and Iran has not attacked us. But bombing another country's sovereign territory is an act of war. So, under the Constitution, a declaration of war by Congress would be required before the President legally could order such an assault.
Details, details.
Meanwhile, the son of some old friends of mine was hit a day or two ago by a "nonlethal" bullet in Los Angeles while peacefully protesting ICE immigration raids. He was also gassed. He might lose sight in the eye that the bullet struck. Law enforcement protocol calls for rubber bullets not to be fired at the head, so as to avoid just such injuries. This is how the government responded to him for exercising his First Amendment rights to freedom of speech, freedom of association, and the right to petition the government for redress of grievances. That pesky Constitution again.
Let's be clear about one thing. Whatever else the vicious incompetents in charge of the current regime in Washington are pretending to accomplish, whether they are trying to enhance their dwindling image of strength and toughness by riding on genocidal war criminal Netanyahu's coattails or "cracking down" on peaceful, lawful protest at home, they are at war with one thing in particular: the Constitution of the United States, and through it the American people.
Fight back.
