War! Hmmmph!!!! What is it good for? Absolutely nothing.

You can’t argue with Edwin Star and his fab hit song. When we used to have protest songs. Now we just have protests without the songs. In 1970 Neil Young wrote ‘Ohio’, a protest song about a protest. He wrote it in 15 minutes after learning that in an anti-Vietnam war protest at Kent State University soldiers opened fire on the students, killing four and wounding nine. The single came out just 5 days later. That’s almost ‘live commentary’ in the pre-internet days.

But we’re loading up the Middle East with ‘weapons of mass destruction’. All aimed at Iran. And when I say ‘we’, I mean ‘him’. Trump. A man capable of changing his mind three times in a 5-word sentence. But he’s sent sufficient fighting machinery to the Gulf to threaten every camel in the region. He sent one ‘boat’ (they’re all boats, if it floats and it ain’t a duck; issa boat) which is about the size of Ipswich. But holds way more aircraft than all of North Anglia. There’s more boats with more planes. Fighters, re-fuelers, radar planes, the lot. Other boats carry missiles. You can get quite a few of those a big boat. So ‘we’ are prepared for war.

What we’re not sure about is why. I mean specifically. Generally, any reason to attack Iran is a good reason. Anything from the horrendous government there, to the nuclear threat, to ‘there’s nothing to do this Saturday night; let’s invade Iran’. Trump threatened ‘intervention’ when the IRGC were murdering protesters. No protest songs because pop songs have been banned in Iran since the revolution. So if you can’t sing them a song, send in ballistic missiles instead. Right???

Iran have also been doing more than their fair share of posturing. Testing weapons, displaying some nice shiny tanks in Tehran and making all sorts of noises how any invasion will result in a ‘regional response’. You don’t need a degree in geo-politics to understand that as a threat to Israel. They wouldn’t invade any of their allies, not that they have many; they certainly wouldn’t attack Saudi Arabia, their worstest of enemies. Anyone else in the ‘region’ would be protected by the Saudis and Iran fears them greatly. And they hate Israel in Iran. But like really, really, REALLY hate it.

I don’t know where Trump’s boys (and gels) would strike. Because although half the population are Ayatollah-wallahs and could do with shooting, the other half are not. They’re just good people stuck in hell. Without freedom, without hope, without fucking bread at the moment as their economy has collapsed. And I wouldn’t want to add ‘shelling’ to their current list of woes.

I hate the Iranian rulers and the way they rule, with terror, total control and death as their major methods of diplomacy. But I worry that the Great Orange One in Washington could call for an attack because he’s so pissed off with his Supreme Court for stopping his tariffs. And although Israel is definitely onside with any action against Iran, acting on the whims of a spoiled child throwing his toys out of the pram, is never a good reason to start a war.

Not really sure there is ever a ‘good reason’ to start a war. Edwin Star was right.

Not talking about sport. Possibly never again. England rugby turns to shit and Spurs play Arsenal in 5 hours.

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A xxxx