"Where's My Peace Prize?!"

     Well, today Mr. No Foreign Forever Wars just bombed Iran.

     Yes, the guy who'd been whining for years like a spoiled rich girl for that pony for her birthday about not getting a Nobel Peace Prize just bombed not once, not twice but three times a sovereign nation over a nuclear weapons program that our own government can't even verify. Trump announced, as usual, through social media, that he'd bombed three nuclear enrichment sites in the Iranian mountains.

     According to reports, the bombings did happen and we'd used three 30,000 pound bombs known as bunker busters, the most powerful ordinance we have short of nuclear weapons. Bunker busters are used to take out targets deep underground. They're so heavy they can only be lifted by a B2 stealth bomber. We're the only country in the world with both the B2 and the bunker busters.

     Israel has been bothering us to sell them those weapons and bombers since 2004 when the bunker busters had been introduced into our arsenal during the Bush administration. In light of our near complete deference to Israel since 1948, the mere fact that no administration has been willing too sell Israel those bombs and bombers shows you how dangerous they are.

     But, as hideously powerful as they are (they can vaporize a fleet of dump trucks), bunker busters have their limits. The Iranians aren't stupid and they were canny enough to hide their uranium enrichment facilities (Like the main one in Fordow) deep enough underground so that no one bunker buster bomb can take it out. In fact, it would take successive strikes of bunker busters before we seriously damaged whatever facilities they have (and bombing a uranium enrichment plant is never a good idea).

     Of course, there are potential geopolitical implications, not the least of which is that we have 40,000 troops in the Middle East. Plus, China and Russia are allies of Iran and they are not going to take this lying down.

     The stunt that Trump pulled today, in bombing a sovereign nation without Congressional approval, is likely extremely illegal from both a Constitutional and an international law standpoint. Trump got played by Netanyahu and let him sucker us into a proxy war that will be very difficult getting out of. He didn't have B2s or bunker busters so he manipulated the "president" of the one country that did.

     So much for "America First." This is the way the world ends, with a bang and a whimper over not winning the Peace Prize.