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Re: Donald Trump’s war on Iran is righteously just — Adam Zivo, March 2; and Mark Carney’s unprincipled stand(s) on Iran — Michael Higgins, March 5

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Three days after bombs and rockets began raining down on political and military targets throughout the Islamic Republic of Iran, U.S. President Donald Trump hosted a press conference in the Oval Office. The president calmly discussed how two close allies — the U.S. and Israel — had killed Iran’s Supreme Leader and almost 50 of his team by flattening their compound in Tehran. He also noted how other allies had not backed his actions, singling out Spain and England as both being slow to agree to the U.S. Air Force using their bases. He was particularly displeased with U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer, about whom he sneered: ”He’s no Winston Churchill.”

Between the many gold-coloured trinkets in the Oval Office, there’s a famous bronze bust of Churchill, presented to president Lyndon Johnson back in 1965 by a group of American wartime friends of Sir Winston. (The original cast was made in 1947.) While the situation in the Middle East develops, there are mumblings and rumblings about the merit of the attacks and the destiny of the 93 million people living in Iran. President Trump may gain solace — or at least insight — from a glance at Churchill’s 1948 book, The Gathering Storm, which was the first volume in his six-volume memoir of the Second World War. Churchill wrote: “Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on that strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.”

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The outcome of Trump’s and Israeli P.M. Benjamin Netanyahu’s “war fever” remains to be seen.

Bernie Smith, Parksville, B.C.

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s seemingly inconsistent messaging on Iran reveals one clear consistency: it avoids offending China. The strongest moral case for action against Iran is solidarity with Iranian citizens who are standing up for basic rights and freedoms, only to be met with brutal repression and mass killings by their own........

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