Roaming Charges: Hail the Unconquering Hero!
May 29, 2026 Roaming Charges: Hail the Unconquering Hero! Jeffrey St. Clair Facebook Twitter Reddit Bluesky Email Still of Eddie Bracken as Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith in Preston Sturges’ Hail the Conquering Hero. (1944) Why do we hunger so for vicious things? Our wishes bend the statues of the gods. ― Robert Lowell Trump began his war on Iran during talks to prevent it. He said it gave him the element of surprise. His missile strikes killed much of the Iranian leadership, including some of the Iranians his team thought might govern the country after the bombing ended. One of his missiles hit a girls’ school, another hit the compound of Mahmood Ahmadinejad, one of the candidates Trump’s people had in mind to run Iran after they killed Ayatollah Ali Khameni, the Iranian religious leader who, austere as he was, preferred negotiation over confrontation. Trump brushed off talk from some of his advisers that Iran would likely respond by shutting the Strait of Hormuz and attacking o...
