(7 hours ago)quintessentone Wrote:(8 hours ago)LightAngel Wrote: WASHINGTON, March 17 (Reuters) - The head of the National Counterterrorism Center resigned on Tuesday, becoming the first and most senior member of U.S. President Donald Trump's administration to resign over the war in Iran, saying Tehran posed no imminent threat to the United States.
"I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful lobby," Joseph Kent wrote in a letter to Trump posted on X.
US National Counterterrorism Center director resigns over war in Iran | Reuters
More higher ups are against this war too, whether or not they will come forward is the question.
The discussions now seem to be heading to war crimes against US government's 'shock and awe' first attacks on hospitals and especially the strike which incinerated 170 women, school children and teachers at that school next to the abandoned military compound which was on the no strike list but was on Hegseth's 'shock and awe' list for a show of force.
There is no honor in this war.
Having participated in the odd spat here and there, I can pretty confidently say there's no honor in ANY war. Racking up "honors" and counting coup is not a feature of warfare any more, and it's never really been a feature of European or Middle Eastern warfare, going all the way back to Sumer, Concepts like "honor in war" are just sops handed out to the public to promote their "patriotism". When you get right down to blood and injury, flying guts and body parts, there's just no honor in it.
War is kill or be killed, and the Devil take the hindmost. Honor is not a goal or a factor, it's just often a block to survival. And, in the final analysis, survival is the name of the game.
One can have individual respect for an opponent, but that is not "honor in war", because there IS no honor in war. There is just smoke, soot, craters and body parts where there used to be people. The only real objective is to reduce your enemy's ability to reduce people to body parts. Killing them is often the only way to accomplish that.
It's not honor, it's survival.
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“Trouble rather the tiger in his lair than the sage among his books. For to you kingdoms and their armies are things mighty and enduring, but to him they are but toys of the moment, to be overturned with the flick of a finger.”
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake