The following is a column that I submitted to the Waco “Tribune-Herald” on Friday 3-20-2026. They haven’t had time yet to use it or not, but I thought it too important not to post here on “exrocketman". Just as it was submitted.
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Just So You Know … GW
Johnson 3-20-2026 w/c 908
We are in another Mideast war, one that could drag on “forever” like the
others, despite what the President and
his administration figures claim, and violating
an election promise he made! 3 weeks
in, we have yet to see a coherent
explanation from your President, or ANY
of his administration figures, as to (1)
“why start this war?” and (2) “why start
it right now?”
Fuel prices are already rising sharply because of this
war. In large part, fuel prices ultimately determine the prices
of almost anything you can name, because
they power both the transportation and the production of almost everything! Every single oil price shock during my entire
life has precipitated a recession at one level or another, and inflation! To get elected, your President promised you affordability. He lied!
Trump and Hegseth told you they knocked out Iran’s military and
killed at least some of the ruling ayatollahs,
in the first few days of this war,
plus destroying all the ballistic missile launchers, and the factories where the infamous Shahed
drones are made. That claim may be
true, but they lied by omission!
They said NOTHING about Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, the private terrorist army that kept those
ayatollahs in power! And it is the
Revolutionary Guard that still rules Iran,
oppressing its people, and
flinging drones and missiles all over the region! Their drone attacks and threats of mines are
why both oil and cargo shipping are blocked from going through the Strait of
Hormuz.
The Revolutionary Guard has possession of the
underground-hidden, already-enriched, uranium!
They have the missiles and drones, and are still flinging a lot of them! They have no thoughtful governance
anymore, just their own terrorist
proclivities! They literally ARE the
evil regime that still rules Iran!
And until they are destroyed utterly, (1) there is no end to their ambitions for
nuclear weapons! (2) There is no end to
their subsidiary terrorist operations (Hamas,
Hezbollah, the Houthis, etc.) that have killed our people and our
friends for 47 years now! (3) There is
no end to their threat to the entire world’s economies by closing the Strait of
Hormuz! (4) There is no end to their
sworn objective of wiping Israel off the face of the Earth! (5) There is no end to their oppression of
the totally-unarmed and unorganized Iranian people, who were once our friends!
There is no credible hope of an uprising toppling the
Revolutionary Guard, despite what Trump
said. He lied!
There is only one acceptable outcome to this war, which would address all five evils listed in
the paragraph just above: real regime
change in Iran! That requires a
truly massive ground invasion that not only drives the Revolutionary Guard from
power, but also utterly destroys
it, essentially to the last man! And THAT unpalatable prospect is EXACTLY WHY
no prior administration in this country,
or any other country, has
attempted real regime change in Iran for 47 years now!
By starting this Iran war,
apparently without thinking it through properly, Trump has put us into a far worse position
than ever before! We now have a “forever
war” with lots of casualties and expense,
or a regime-change operation on the scale of the D-Day invasion in World
War 2, or else just lose this war by
leaving the Revolutionary Guard in power!
If that last is chosen, then eventually
we will see a nuclear truck bomb used over here, in revenge for our attack!
One can argue about how legal it was for Trump to start this
war without consulting Congress for authorization. It is only my opinion that the war powers
delegation act does not authorize direct attacks upon another country, whether it has a terrorist regime or not, only upon any terrorist armies they may
harbor.
Either way, a
President starting a war without proper authorization is abuse of power and an
impeachable offense! I have repeatedly
informed my federal representation of this.
Trump has (too late) realized at least some of his mistake, and is very clearly now searching for an
off-ramp to “declare victory” and get out,
without losing his Congressional majorities in the 2026 mid-term
elections! But to do that, he must quickly get the Strait of Hormuz open
to commercial shipping again! He needs
help to do that!
So why is Trump surprised and frustrated that our allies are
unwilling to get into a war they did not start,
and with which they had no part in the decision? With a country that did NOT attack us first? And after a year of being insulted, angered,
and alienated by Trump! (Not to
mention being insulted and angered by Trump during his first term.)
I have repeatedly posed that question to my federal
representation, along with the
arguably-true notion that weakening our alliances by alienating our allies, is treason of the “aid and comfort” type! That also is an impeachable offense!
All I can suggest is that you readers need to be doing the
same thing I have been doing: repeatedly
messaging your federal representation!
Let them know how much you dislike what is going on, and demand they correct it! If they do not, you then know “for sure” that you need
somebody else as your representation.
Anybody else! I do not think you
could do worse than what you have now,
in the White House, and in
Congress!
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