President Donald Trump posted on social media last week that the U.S. just “saved Israel” from Iran, and it is now time for Washington to save Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from his corruption cases, which could put him and his wife away for life.
There is a somewhat troublesome backstory to President Donald Trump’s glorification of how Saturday’s U.S. forces attack on three Iranian nuclear sites that “completely obliterated” their targets was carried out without any declaration of war against a country that has not attacked and was not in any way threatening the United States.
Seventy years after President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned about the cost of a military-industrial complex, America is still stealing from its own people to fund a global empire.
In Trump’s America, the bar for martial law is no longer constitutional—it’s personal.
“We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases.” — Ayn Rand
What we’re witnessing is the calculated use of emergency powers to concentrate power in the hands of the president, enrich the Deep State, and dismantle what remains of economic and constitutional safeguards.
“If Trump can disappear them, he can disappear you.”—Robert Reich The war on due process is here.
“This is war.”—President Trump
President Trump’s declaration of war as a justification for using wartime powers to sidestep constitutional protections is indeed a war, but it is a war waged by the president against dissent, against due process, and against the very foundations of our constitutional republic.
There should be little doubt in anyone’s mind that the “wag the dog” relationship between the United States and Israel has done terrible damage to American institutions and constitutional liberties.
You can’t have it both ways. You can’t live in a constitutional republic if you allow the government to act like a police state.