War has always been a sad and horrible thing,

but there is something particularly sinister about a country being able to inflict incredible human suffering on others without going through any real pain, itself. And that ability is pretty much completely unique to the power the developed world has over the developing world, today.

Whatever happens, may God help the people of Iran. To whatever extent the US has ever had the Mandate of Heaven, we've lost it. The rest of the world needs to show some solidarity against us.