You accurately capture my sentiment. Siding with an inveterate liar on the very issue he's been lying about for decades, against your own Intel chief who has been speaking truth to vipers for years, Trump decides to violate all the 'no stupid wars' promises he made. I am done with him.
This was the last straw, but it isn't the first domino. Pretending to be about fiscal restraint, appointing Elon Musk to lead DOGE, allowing Musk to burn significant personal and professional capital while he tried to help the country -- for free -- then ignoring everything they turn up in favor of more-of-the-same: the so-called Big Beautiful Bill.
That was the first middle finger. The sell-out to the Zionists was just the part where he used both hands while flipping us off.
He's a clown. He's better than the other clown vying for this office -- but not by much.
One of the great ironies of Washington, DC is the hiring of supposedly brilliant people from the most prestigious universities who then commit some of the most stupid acts imaginable, and they do it over and over again.
Trump does not need anybody's money, and one should consider what the world would be like right now if Kamala would have won. Islam hates the West, and of you read the Koran, it is based on "Kill the Infidel"!. These people love death and destruction, and they should be cut no slack. Bibi is a neocon, and Trump needs to understand that. Everyone is whispering in his ear, and he needs to discern what is true, and who the players are. I support him; even though I do not sometimes understand his decisions. I wish the people who write in would study history. Don't get your news from liberal TV and Hollywood websites where ignorant people comment!
Let’s get something straight — because this distortion is repeated too often and too casually:
The Qur’an does NOT command Muslims to “kill all infidels.” That phrase appears nowhere. What the Qur’an actually outlines are rules of engagement in wartime — always contextual, defensive, and ethically bound.
The Qur’an explicitly prohibits:
• Aggression against innocents
• Forced conversion
• Destruction of land, animals, or religious sites
• Compulsion in matters of faith (Qur’an 2:256)
• Even harming enemy soldiers who surrender
It lays out a moral framework for war that — whether you believe in it or not — is fundamentally restrained, emphasizing justice and the cessation of conflict as soon as the aggressor stops.
Now compare this to the so-called “Western scriptures” being defended here.
- Bible & Tanakh — These Are Not the Same
Let’s not pretend the Qur’an and the Bible/Tanakh and others are morally equivalent when it comes to war.
1 Samuel 15:3:
“Now go and strike Amalek… kill both man and woman, child and infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.”
This is not war. This is genocide — explicitly ordered and executed.
Deuteronomy 20:16:
“You shall not leave alive anything that breathes.”
No context. No ethical limitation. Just total annihilation of everything living — in the name of divine command.
Numbers 31:17–18:
“Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man by lying with him. But all the young girls who have not known man… keep alive for yourselves.”
There is no verse — none — in the Qur’an even remotely resembling this horror.
Let’s be emphatic: the Qur’an never endorses killing civilians, children, or keeping women as war prizes. Never. Please bring ALL the popular (mis)quoted verses….happy to debunk all of them.
Hindu Texts (Bhagavad Gita)
Even the Gita, which is often seen as a spiritual guide, is set in the context of a divinely sanctioned war. “Slay them, for they are already slain by Me.” (Gita 11.33)
It promotes detachment from consequences — killing not out of hatred, but duty. That’s fine as a metaphysical framework, but again — this is not moral restraint. This is metaphysical justification.
Qur’anic Warfare Ethics
Compare again:
• “Fight those who fight you — but do not transgress. God does not love the aggressors.” (Qur’an 2:190)
• “If they incline to peace, then you too must incline to it.” (8:61)
• “Whoever kills a soul…it is as if he has killed all of mankind.” (5:32)
These are NOT verses of conquest. They are rules of defense. They reflect the most advanced wartime ethics of their era — arguably more advanced than many modern states today.
Stop Equating Unequal Things
Islam is not above critique — but misquoting the Qur’an while ignoring the far more explicitly genocidal verses in other scriptures is dishonest at best, and bigoted at worst.
If people actually read the Qur’an — in full, not from cherry-picked hate sites — they’d see a religion that:
• Protects Jews and Christians as People of the Book
• Prohibits forced conversion
• Honors the sanctity of life
• Frames war as a last resort
We cannot keep pretending these traditions say the same thing. They don’t. And when the Qur’an is the only text punished in public discourse, while far more violent texts are defended or ignored — that’s not theological debate. That’s propaganda.
I haven’t read the entire Koran, but as a non-Muslim, I think “Kill the infidel” would have jumped out to me in what I did read. Did I miss it? Can you point me to the passage?
Respectfully, this “900 Americans killed by Iranian proxies” framing is exactly the kind of shallow metric that keeps public memory short and systemic power invisible.
Yes, lives were lost. But this did not occur in a vacuum. These deaths happened within a long arc of empire, where Iran has been resisting—not initiating—a world order built not on freedom, but on submission to a Zionist-globalist system of control.
Iran is one of the last nations that:
– Refuses a Rothschild-controlled central bank
– Denounces political Zionism and the Greater Israel project
– Opposes integration into the Western-led, IMF-driven economic trap
– And dares to craft a sovereign policy outside the reach of unelected global institutions
This isn’t about terrorism. It’s about defiance. What we call “state-sponsored terror” is often nothing more than a refusal to join the empire. The global system now governs much of the planet through centralized banking, synthetic democracies, regime change disguised as liberation, and media narratives designed to criminalize resistance.
The idea that Iran has received “zero response” is simply false.
It has endured decades of economic warfare. Sanctions have crippled its middle class and medical systems, not the ruling elite. It has suffered assassinations, sabotage operations, cyberattacks, and proxy wars. It is militarily encircled and constantly threatened. And this punishment has nothing to do with “terror”—and everything to do with resisting the financial and military order imposed by the same network that topples any state which refuses to comply.
This is not new. Iran is only the latest chapter in a long playbook used against every sovereign nation that stepped out of line.
Iraq moved to trade oil in euros. Libya proposed a gold-backed African currency. Syria blocked Western energy corridors. Panama’s Noriega refused to play along. Chile’s Allende nationalized copper. Nicaragua’s Sandinistas resisted U.S. interference. Burkina Faso’s Thomas Sankara rejected IMF colonialism. Congo’s Patrice Lumumba stood against Belgian and U.S. corporate theft. Indonesia’s Sukarno wanted a neutral path. Iran’s Mossadegh nationalized oil, and countless others.
All were overthrown, invaded, or assassinated. Not for violence. For disobedience.
Sanctions are not diplomacy, but are siege warfare. They do not force peace but create collapse. And while we count 900 American deaths, we ignore the millions dead or displaced across the Global South from U.S.-backed wars, blockades, drone strikes, and economic domination.
This isn’t about national security. It’s about global submission to a transnational system that has already hijacked most of the planet. That system was seeded in Europe—particularly in the UK—and refined through colonialism, debt, and military leverage. America is not the mastermind; it is the weapon.
Iran is targeted not because it loves conflict, but because it remains one of the few nations that still refuses to join a future of synthetic food, cashless control, spiritual collapse, and borderless obedience. The same future many sacred traditions warned would come under the banner of a false messiah. The Dajjalic (an Islamic term for AntiChrist, the one world) system isn’t coming. It’s already here.
You don’t have to support Iran’s domestic politics to recognize the truth. This is not a war on terror. It’s a war on sovereignty. And those 900 lives—tragic as they are—must not be used to justify a narrative that only values Western lives while ignoring the far greater violence required to preserve the illusion of global order.
If we want to talk about facts, then let’s talk about all of them. Not just the ones that excuse empire.
You are correct, broken record. Although silver going to triple digits, the dollars dying last breath, the pole shifting, aliens on the White House lawn, etc are very similar in the constant prediction business. All can happen eventually so as much as hate this genocidal maniac BiBi I see he might be right. I am just as concerned that Israel has them and the fact that maybe one of the reasons they whacked JFK was he opposed that. I was not yet a teenager in 1963 so I have only read about that tidbit.
It’s hard to get any reasonable discussion about this topic. I don’t necessarily disagree with much of what your wrote. Although, you libertarian minded folks love to talk “blow back” and act like these radical jihadists are just rationale actors. That is bat s**t crazy. There’s some middle ground between that and “they hate us for our freedoms.”
Trump has zero interest in boots on the ground in Iran. Let’s be real. However, Iran is the biggest terror proxy in the world. We do have a vested interest in stopping them. Why this week- is the urgency really real? I don’t know.
Trump is one man and has done a lot, but until Americans wake up and demand some sense of morality, civility and freedom we are screwed.
I trust Donald Trump at this point and that’s a scary place to be.
Spot-on. But, nothing will change. Trump will go on doing what he is told to do. And, it isn't what the people of the USofA want. It is about Money and Power. And while us peons have some money we have zero power.
You accurately capture my sentiment. Siding with an inveterate liar on the very issue he's been lying about for decades, against your own Intel chief who has been speaking truth to vipers for years, Trump decides to violate all the 'no stupid wars' promises he made. I am done with him.
This was the last straw, but it isn't the first domino. Pretending to be about fiscal restraint, appointing Elon Musk to lead DOGE, allowing Musk to burn significant personal and professional capital while he tried to help the country -- for free -- then ignoring everything they turn up in favor of more-of-the-same: the so-called Big Beautiful Bill.
That was the first middle finger. The sell-out to the Zionists was just the part where he used both hands while flipping us off.
He's a clown. He's better than the other clown vying for this office -- but not by much.
Thanks, Laramie. I don't know if I feel exactly the same way but I absolutely get where you're coming from.
One of the great ironies of Washington, DC is the hiring of supposedly brilliant people from the most prestigious universities who then commit some of the most stupid acts imaginable, and they do it over and over again.
Trump does not need anybody's money, and one should consider what the world would be like right now if Kamala would have won. Islam hates the West, and of you read the Koran, it is based on "Kill the Infidel"!. These people love death and destruction, and they should be cut no slack. Bibi is a neocon, and Trump needs to understand that. Everyone is whispering in his ear, and he needs to discern what is true, and who the players are. I support him; even though I do not sometimes understand his decisions. I wish the people who write in would study history. Don't get your news from liberal TV and Hollywood websites where ignorant people comment!
Let’s get something straight — because this distortion is repeated too often and too casually:
The Qur’an does NOT command Muslims to “kill all infidels.” That phrase appears nowhere. What the Qur’an actually outlines are rules of engagement in wartime — always contextual, defensive, and ethically bound.
The Qur’an explicitly prohibits:
• Aggression against innocents
• Forced conversion
• Destruction of land, animals, or religious sites
• Compulsion in matters of faith (Qur’an 2:256)
• Even harming enemy soldiers who surrender
It lays out a moral framework for war that — whether you believe in it or not — is fundamentally restrained, emphasizing justice and the cessation of conflict as soon as the aggressor stops.
Now compare this to the so-called “Western scriptures” being defended here.
- Bible & Tanakh — These Are Not the Same
Let’s not pretend the Qur’an and the Bible/Tanakh and others are morally equivalent when it comes to war.
1 Samuel 15:3:
“Now go and strike Amalek… kill both man and woman, child and infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.”
This is not war. This is genocide — explicitly ordered and executed.
Deuteronomy 20:16:
“You shall not leave alive anything that breathes.”
No context. No ethical limitation. Just total annihilation of everything living — in the name of divine command.
Numbers 31:17–18:
“Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man by lying with him. But all the young girls who have not known man… keep alive for yourselves.”
There is no verse — none — in the Qur’an even remotely resembling this horror.
Let’s be emphatic: the Qur’an never endorses killing civilians, children, or keeping women as war prizes. Never. Please bring ALL the popular (mis)quoted verses….happy to debunk all of them.
Hindu Texts (Bhagavad Gita)
Even the Gita, which is often seen as a spiritual guide, is set in the context of a divinely sanctioned war. “Slay them, for they are already slain by Me.” (Gita 11.33)
It promotes detachment from consequences — killing not out of hatred, but duty. That’s fine as a metaphysical framework, but again — this is not moral restraint. This is metaphysical justification.
Qur’anic Warfare Ethics
Compare again:
• “Fight those who fight you — but do not transgress. God does not love the aggressors.” (Qur’an 2:190)
• “If they incline to peace, then you too must incline to it.” (8:61)
• “Whoever kills a soul…it is as if he has killed all of mankind.” (5:32)
These are NOT verses of conquest. They are rules of defense. They reflect the most advanced wartime ethics of their era — arguably more advanced than many modern states today.
Stop Equating Unequal Things
Islam is not above critique — but misquoting the Qur’an while ignoring the far more explicitly genocidal verses in other scriptures is dishonest at best, and bigoted at worst.
If people actually read the Qur’an — in full, not from cherry-picked hate sites — they’d see a religion that:
• Protects Jews and Christians as People of the Book
• Prohibits forced conversion
• Honors the sanctity of life
• Frames war as a last resort
We cannot keep pretending these traditions say the same thing. They don’t. And when the Qur’an is the only text punished in public discourse, while far more violent texts are defended or ignored — that’s not theological debate. That’s propaganda.
I haven’t read the entire Koran, but as a non-Muslim, I think “Kill the infidel” would have jumped out to me in what I did read. Did I miss it? Can you point me to the passage?
Thank you for questioning baselessness.
You can't trust the genocidal triad of Isreal-USA-UK. They bomb you whether you're on their side or not, it's in the nature.
Excellent piece, Lau — one of the most grounded takes I’ve seen on this. But there’s a different take as well…
Just to clarify my earlier comment — I broke down the nearly 900 Americans killed by Iranian proxies since 1979.
Not to escalate — but to remember what’s been ignored.
📖 Facts Are Facts: 900 Dead, Zero Response (via my Common Sense thread)
https://open.substack.com/pub/commonsense1256/p/facts-are-facts-900-dead-zero-response?r=5tjncr&utm_medium=ios
Irans government is tyrannical and a threat to anyone who chooses their own religious path.
We can argue about geopolitics all day, but that won’t change the fact that the Mullah’s have encouraged genocide since taking power ..
Yes, lives were lost. But this did not occur in a vacuum. These deaths happened within a long arc of empire, where Iran has been resisting
Inexcusable
Respectfully, this “900 Americans killed by Iranian proxies” framing is exactly the kind of shallow metric that keeps public memory short and systemic power invisible.
Yes, lives were lost. But this did not occur in a vacuum. These deaths happened within a long arc of empire, where Iran has been resisting—not initiating—a world order built not on freedom, but on submission to a Zionist-globalist system of control.
Iran is one of the last nations that:
– Refuses a Rothschild-controlled central bank
– Denounces political Zionism and the Greater Israel project
– Opposes integration into the Western-led, IMF-driven economic trap
– And dares to craft a sovereign policy outside the reach of unelected global institutions
This isn’t about terrorism. It’s about defiance. What we call “state-sponsored terror” is often nothing more than a refusal to join the empire. The global system now governs much of the planet through centralized banking, synthetic democracies, regime change disguised as liberation, and media narratives designed to criminalize resistance.
The idea that Iran has received “zero response” is simply false.
It has endured decades of economic warfare. Sanctions have crippled its middle class and medical systems, not the ruling elite. It has suffered assassinations, sabotage operations, cyberattacks, and proxy wars. It is militarily encircled and constantly threatened. And this punishment has nothing to do with “terror”—and everything to do with resisting the financial and military order imposed by the same network that topples any state which refuses to comply.
This is not new. Iran is only the latest chapter in a long playbook used against every sovereign nation that stepped out of line.
Iraq moved to trade oil in euros. Libya proposed a gold-backed African currency. Syria blocked Western energy corridors. Panama’s Noriega refused to play along. Chile’s Allende nationalized copper. Nicaragua’s Sandinistas resisted U.S. interference. Burkina Faso’s Thomas Sankara rejected IMF colonialism. Congo’s Patrice Lumumba stood against Belgian and U.S. corporate theft. Indonesia’s Sukarno wanted a neutral path. Iran’s Mossadegh nationalized oil, and countless others.
All were overthrown, invaded, or assassinated. Not for violence. For disobedience.
Sanctions are not diplomacy, but are siege warfare. They do not force peace but create collapse. And while we count 900 American deaths, we ignore the millions dead or displaced across the Global South from U.S.-backed wars, blockades, drone strikes, and economic domination.
This isn’t about national security. It’s about global submission to a transnational system that has already hijacked most of the planet. That system was seeded in Europe—particularly in the UK—and refined through colonialism, debt, and military leverage. America is not the mastermind; it is the weapon.
Iran is targeted not because it loves conflict, but because it remains one of the few nations that still refuses to join a future of synthetic food, cashless control, spiritual collapse, and borderless obedience. The same future many sacred traditions warned would come under the banner of a false messiah. The Dajjalic (an Islamic term for AntiChrist, the one world) system isn’t coming. It’s already here.
You don’t have to support Iran’s domestic politics to recognize the truth. This is not a war on terror. It’s a war on sovereignty. And those 900 lives—tragic as they are—must not be used to justify a narrative that only values Western lives while ignoring the far greater violence required to preserve the illusion of global order.
If we want to talk about facts, then let’s talk about all of them. Not just the ones that excuse empire.
I wouldn’t say “zero response”. Iran has been under ever increasing US and international sanctions for nearly my entire life.
Sanctions?
Well deserved … but a weak response to the exported terrorism. It hasn’t worked, especially with Chinese and Russian support.
I’m not a hawk, I hate war, but a line needs to be drawn, and they’ve crossed it repeatedly.
This act alone may very well end their role in state sponsored terror.
You are correct, broken record. Although silver going to triple digits, the dollars dying last breath, the pole shifting, aliens on the White House lawn, etc are very similar in the constant prediction business. All can happen eventually so as much as hate this genocidal maniac BiBi I see he might be right. I am just as concerned that Israel has them and the fact that maybe one of the reasons they whacked JFK was he opposed that. I was not yet a teenager in 1963 so I have only read about that tidbit.
they have a plan for the world.... yahweh's plan..... and its not in our interest....
That the bellicose "Right" is taking a victory lap only three days later is remarkable. They really do learn nothing:
Were the War Opponents Wrong?
https://jdbreen.substack.com/p/were-war-opponents-wrong
I have published an article on this that I think answers the question .. why now, and if not, when? I think the answer lies within
https://open.substack.com/pub/commonsense1256/p/facts-are-facts-900-dead-zero-response?r=5tjncr&utm_medium=ios
It’s hard to get any reasonable discussion about this topic. I don’t necessarily disagree with much of what your wrote. Although, you libertarian minded folks love to talk “blow back” and act like these radical jihadists are just rationale actors. That is bat s**t crazy. There’s some middle ground between that and “they hate us for our freedoms.”
Trump has zero interest in boots on the ground in Iran. Let’s be real. However, Iran is the biggest terror proxy in the world. We do have a vested interest in stopping them. Why this week- is the urgency really real? I don’t know.
Trump is one man and has done a lot, but until Americans wake up and demand some sense of morality, civility and freedom we are screwed.
I trust Donald Trump at this point and that’s a scary place to be.
Spot-on. But, nothing will change. Trump will go on doing what he is told to do. And, it isn't what the people of the USofA want. It is about Money and Power. And while us peons have some money we have zero power.