My main disappointment right now is the low probability of the last scenario.

I remember reading one of your blogs, or one of your comments associated with that blog where you said something like this,"Someone had to do something," with regard to the U.S./Israeli attack.

I was surprised, because I don't believe it is the right of Israel or the U. S. to overthrow a government. Even if the U. S. and Israel had clean hands (that is, we went in for purely altruistic reasons...to save the Iranian people for example) we still have no right. We can't just go around the world toppling governments. It is an act of naked aggression and I believe countries have a right to self determination. On the basis of this principle, Russia cannot take over Ukraine and the U.S./Israel cannot take over Iran.

Russia seeks a Ukrainian government that is more friendly to its interests. We seek an Iranian government that is more friendly to our(Israel/s) interests. Neither the U. S. nor Russia has a right to do such a thing.

Besides the friendly governments we sought to establish, Trump was talking about taking the oil. It's so base, so ugly. And Israel...Israel wants to establish its own hegemony in the Middle East. It's taking over Gaza, the West Bank, and it's got its eyes on Lebanon. Iran would be quite a feather in its cap...or at least an Iran controlled by the U.S. There are no clean hands here.

Of course we do live in the real physical world. Ethics are nice but we want to survive. Therefore, a nuclear Iran is not something we can abide. If we can prevent it, then we must. Well, before the war there were ways to address this issue. No real effort at diplomacy was attempted, however. A son-in-law and real estate developer are not seasoned negotiators. Nobody outside of Trump's circle trusted them to get the job done, to avert war by striking a solid nuclear deal with Iran.

War was always the goal.

Oh, the arrogance that led to this bungled effort. If it weren't so catastrophic for all of us, I'd almost rejoice at the humiliation of the war's perpetrators.

It's not just the bottle-necked oil and the uncertain state of global affairs. It's lives lost. How many people have died in Iran? In Lebanon? In Iraq? People who died in Israel and U. S. soldiers. People who were wounded. Lives changed forever.

War was not the answer to our Iran nuclear problem. Maybe somebody had to do something, but nobody had to start a war.

Where will this end up? No place good. The same cynical, bungling dolts who made this mess are trying to untangle it.

Best to just not think about all of it...