In the early hours of Saturday, February 28, 2026, President Trump announced that the United States and Israel had attacked Iran.
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Is there a Nobel Committee for War?
The answer is an emphatic, “No, of course not”. But, if there were a Nobel Committee for War, they would almost certainly award the Nobel War Prize to President Donald J. Trump.
The man who pulled the United States out of the JCPOA (the Iran nuclear agreement) in May of 2018, ordered an attack on Iran … in the middle of new negotiations with that country.[1] (As usual, he acted without conferring with the branch of government that has the authority to declare war … Congress.) This is the second time that President Trump has ordered an attack Iran in the past 8 months.
Iran has put out a list of important officials who were killed by the early airstrikes on their country. Israel took the lead on these surgical strikes. They too put out a list of Iranian officials who were killed. Both agree that Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is dead. Other important officials on the Iranian list are:
- Ali Shamkhani – Khamenei’s security adviser and head of Iran’s Security Council
- Abdul Rahim Mousavi – Chief of Staff of Iran’s Armed Forces
- Aziz Nasirzadeh – Defence Minister
- Mohammad Pakpour – Commander-in-Chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)
In addition to most of those on the Iranian list, the Israeli list includes:
- Mohammed Shirazi, a longtime defence liaison
- Hossein Jabal Amelian, a research official
- Reza Mozaffari-Nia, a research official
- Saleh Asadi, an intelligence official
Since the attack, Iran has fired missles at a number of other Middle Eastern countries who they consider to be allied with the Unites States:
- Israel
- Bahrain
- Kuwait
- Qatar
- The United Arab Emirates (UAE)
- Jordan
- Saudi Arabia
Israel is obvious. Along with the United States, they fired the first shots. The others have U.S. military bases or are otherwise friendly with the Trump Administration. The 1,400 year scism between the Sunni and Shia branches of Islam plus the ethnic differences between Iran and other Middle Eastern countries probably contribute as well.
What Do the People Think?
From what I’ve seen in the news, the Iranian people are split over the death of Ayatollah Khamenei. The most devout Shiites are in deep mourning over the loss of their Supreme Leader. He was more than just a head of state. He was their religious leader. The people who have been suffering under the oppressive rule of the government and those who want to see their country move into the 21st Centuty like neighboring countrys … especially the young … were cheering in the streets.
The National Council of Resistance of Iran has set up a provisional government to transfer sovereignty to the People in order to establish a democratic republic. If they create a truly democratic republic, it could restore what they had before the 1953 Iranian coup d’état overthrew … with the assistance of Britain’s MI6 and our CIA … the prime minister and parlimentary government of Iran. If that happens, Donald Trump might be considered a hero … at least in Iran.
Promises Made; Promises NOT Kept
During the 2024 campaign for his second term, President Trump promised that he should be able to end the wars in Ukraine and Gaza quickly. The last time I checked, Russia and Ukraine are still launching attacks on each other.
In the war between Hamas and Israel, the hostages have been returned and hostilities have, for the most part ended …, but the people of Gaza are still suffering. One of President Trump’s ideas for rebuilding the Gaza Strip is to move all of the people out of their homeland in order to build a “Riviera of the Middle East”. I’ve heard no plans for moving the people of Gaza back afterwards.
Candidate Trump promised an “America First” policy that would keep the United States out of foreign conflicts. His attacks on Iran are, by far, his most egregious deviation from that promise, but there have been others. In the Caribbean Sea, U.S. ships have been destroying small boats and their crews for months. The Administration claims that these boats were “drug runners” heading to our country. On January 3, 2026, President Trump announced that the U.S. military had launched strikes across Venezuela that culminated in the capture and arrest of President Nicolás Maduro and his wife. At one point, he even threatened to use force to take control of Greenland, an autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark.
Monday Morning Update
This morning, Secretary of “War”,[2] Pete Hegseth, interfered with regular programming to provide an update on what he and the President call “the War”. Most of it was bragging and posturing about our “warriors”, the strength of our country, and listing all of the terrible things the Iranian regime has done to us and the rest of the world since the Carter Administration. (I guess that’s what he needs in order to feel like a real man.)
The most important thing that he said is that it will take another 4 or 5 weeks of bombing to complete the mission. I remember President George W. Bush speaking in front of a banner that said “Mission Accomplished” about 6 weeks after the start of the second war in Iraq. His speech began with, “Major combat operations in Iraq have ended. In the battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed … because the regime is no more.” That war took more than 8 years.
I don’t think President Trump will get a Nobel Peace Prize anytime soon … no matter how much he wants it or how he pronounces it.[3] What do you think?
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Notes
[1]
I guess our President is following the negotiation style that his dear friend Vladimir Putin is using in his “peace” negotions with Ukraine.
[2]
Technically, Secretary Hegseth’s department is still the Department of Defense. President Trump’s Executive Order 14347 renamed it the Department of War. The department now refers to itself as the “Department of War”, but it’s still legally the Department of Defense. Only an act of Congress can formally change the name of a federal department.
[3]
I think that the main reason President Trump so desperately wants to win a Nobel Peace Prize is because one was awarded to President Obama. He is so envious … or so totally ignorant … that he usually calls the award the “Noble Peace Prize”.
My Less Than Humble Opinion 