{"id":58536,"date":"2026-04-02T14:35:53","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T22:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=58536"},"modified":"2026-04-02T14:35:53","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T22:35:53","slug":"stone-age-bombing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/02\/stone-age-bombing\/","title":{"rendered":"Stone Age Bombing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reprinted from Bracing Views<\/a> with the author\u2019s permission.<\/i><\/p>\n

I watched President Trump\u2019s speech to the nation last night on the Iran War. The lies and boasts flew thick. According to Trump, America is winning and winning big. Under Joe Biden, America was \u201ccrippled\u201d and \u201cdead,\u201d but Trump has reanimated the dead and healed it. (An obvious aside: Trump has a serious Christ complex.)<\/p>\n

From dead and crippled, America is now the meanest, toughest, hombre in the valley. We take what we want and if you resist we\u2019ll bomb you back to the Stone Age. As the New York Times<\/em> reported: \u201cWe are going to hit them extremely hard,\u201d Trump said. \u201cOver the next two to three weeks, we\u2019re going to bring them back to the Stone Ages, where they belong.\u201d<\/p>\n

The proud Iranian people, with Persia as one of the cradles of civilization \u2013 they mean less than zero to Trump. It doesn\u2019t matter how many people have to die for Trump to feel like a winner.<\/p>\n

A transcript of the speech is here<\/a>. You\u2019ll read about America\u2019s \u201cbeautiful\u201d B-2 bombers and how they\u2019ve performed \u201cmagnificently.\u201d You\u2019ll read about America\u2019s \u201cwarriors\u201d and \u201cheroes\u201d who \u201claid down their lives\u201d to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon. You\u2019ll read about their families who, even as they grieve the loss of loved ones in this war, are beseeching Trump to \u201cPlease, sir, please finish the job.\u201d Every one of them, Trump added.<\/p>\n

There were many reasons to be offended by Trump\u2019s speech last night, but the idea of every grieving family member begging the president to \u201cfinish the job\u201d by continuing to bomb and kill Iranians is certainly high on the list of offenses to morality and truth.<\/p>\n

More than anything, what Trump\u2019s speech told us is what he values. First, of course, himself and his identity as a man of action \u2013 a winner. The economy and the stock market. Oil and gas. Military might. And taking cheap shots at perceived opponents.<\/p>\n

This sentence was especially revealing: The most violent and thuggish regime on earth would be free to carry out their campaigns of terror, coercion, conquest and mass murder from behind a nuclear shield.<\/em><\/p>\n

Trump was referring to Iran here, but what he\u2019s really saying is that only one violent and thuggish regime merits such a blank check on inflicting global violence protected by a nuclear shield. It\u2019s not Iran\u2019s, it\u2019s his.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author\u2019s permission. I watched President Trump\u2019s speech to the nation last night on the Iran War. The lies and boasts flew thick. According to Trump, America is winning and winning big. Under Joe Biden, America was \u201ccrippled\u201d and \u201cdead,\u201d but Trump has reanimated the dead and healed it. (An […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":290,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[758],"class_list":["post-58536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"0","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":"A Dead Crippled Country Can Still Bomb People to Smithereens"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/290"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58536"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58540,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58536\/revisions\/58540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58536"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=58536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}