War! What Is It Good For?

 

by Pa Rock

Citizen Journalist

Late yesterday evening the country of Iran launched a drone and missile attack against the country of Israel in retaliation for Israel's strike against an Iranian consular building in Damascus, Syria, earlier this month.   The Israeli attack had killed members of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps including two senior commanders.  It was widely assumed in the international community that Iran would retaliate, and US President Joe Biden had been saying for days that an attack by Iran against Israel was imminent.

To the surprise of literally no one, that attack occurred last night.

Israel has a supposedly "impenetrable" air defense system which they call the "Iron Dome," but even with that they were glad to have US and British assistance in warding off the attack.   Iran launched more than 300 missiles and drones toward Israel and all but a few were shot down before they reached Israeli air space.  One ten-year-old Israeli girl was reportedly seriously injured in the attack, and thirty-one other Israelis were given medical treatment for anxiety or injuries received while rushing to shelter.

Israel, of course, has promised to retaliate for the retaliatory attack.  That's the way war goes.

Clearly the only winners in last night's flare-up in the Middle East were the world's arms' manufacturers and weapons' dealers.    War has always been, and apparently always will be, good business, and it trades well on the stock market.

And what politician isn't pleased to pocket political donations from these merchants of death?

The 1960's were a lot of fun, but obviously nothing got fixed.