America’s Midnight Hammer, the NeoCon Dogs of War and Trump Derangement

By John Kass

June 25, 2025

So now that Iran’s dream of nuclear weapons has been buried under the mountains—the result of the Trump administration’s Midnight Hammer and massive, 30,000-pound Bunker Buster bombs dropped by U.S warplanes over the last weekend—do you breathe a sigh of relief?

Are you pleased that the decrepit old Supreme Leader of Iran doesn’t have his coveted nuclear weapons?

Or are you of the bitter ones unable to ignore the demons of your Trump Derangement Syndrome as the latent Democrat inside you licks at your soul?

Is that the same internal demon that hushed the Democrats when Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden dropped bombs on the Middle East without seeking Congressional approval?

Is it the same demon that hushed the Democrats as President Joe Biden—bought and paid for by China in need of Iranian oil—was shuffling off into his senility, maintained as a waxen effigy by cynical Democrat White House staffers, even as Iran pursued nuclear weapons?

It’s time to apply some common sense to all of this, much as veteran Chicago newspaperman Steve Huntley did as he wrote his excellent Sunday column for johnkassnews.com:

Iran, Israel, and the Constant Threat of Nuclear War.

I leave the link here, so you may read Steve’s fine column if you haven’t already. And, if you’re a subscriber, you may leave a public comment underneath the columns and tell us what you think.

So, what do I think?

I want to be optimistic. A friend tells me that he thinks President Donald Trump is rather like the late President Ronald Reagan reincarnated. And I agree. Reagan was smooth, a trained actor and corporate spokesman before politics. He had more finesse. Trump is direct. They each brought great strength to the White House.

Reagan broke the Soviet Union. Trump destroyed Iran’s nuclear capabilities. And Democrats make fools of themselves with their impeachment fantasies.

There is now a cease fire. And I’m relieved and thankful that President Trump did what had to be done. He saved Israel from nuclear annihilation. He’s angry with both Israel and Iran for continuing to fight after the cease fire. But he made himself quite clear. And he let Israel know they stepped out of line, something they’re not used to from American politicians.

“We basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don’t know what the f— they’re doing,” Trump said as he left the White House for the NATO summit in the Netherlands.

Are you listening, Bibi?

But Trump is getting heat from members of his own party, from the pro-Israel neocon dogs of war, from no-credibility Deep State John Brennan, and from other critics insisting that Iran may have saved some nuclear material they might use to make a bomb. They’re rooting for failure, just to demean Trump. There are no honest brokers of information here. They all have agendas.

Iran is joined only by CNN that insists Iran’s nuclear capabilities were not harmed. And Iran’s old man, their Supreme Leader, is in hiding.

Many Democrats want Trump impeached, yowling like baboons for his head. These are the same Democrats whose hypocrisy prevents them from admitting how silent they were as Obama dropped all those thousands of bombs on Libya and elsewhere in the Middle East without Congressional approval. It is estimated that during Obama’s presidency (2009-2017), he dropped around 60,000 bombs. Obama bombed Syria, Libya, Iraq and elsewhere.  Democrats who are howling now had nothing to say to Obama or Biden or the Clintons.

Even now, the Democrats have nothing to say about possible Iranian terrorists let through our borders by Joe Biden’s administration. More than 1,000 illegal Iranians are in this country—unvetted–courtesy of the Democrats. Will Iran activate them to commit terrorism here in the US? The question is not if, but when.

The great New York Post reported:

“Immigration agents collared 11 illegal Iranian migrants — including suspected terrorists — over the weekend in eight states as the Border Patrol warned of “possible sleeper” cells in the US.

”Immigration and Customs Enforcement nabbed former Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps member Mehran Makari Sahel, who has “admitted connections” to the Iran-backed terrorist group Hezbollah, according to CBS News.

“He was busted near St. Paul, Minnesota.

“Yousef Mehridehno, whose name appears on the terrorist watchlist, was arrested by ICE outside Jackson, Mississippi, according to the outlet.”

And consider Democrat Rahm Emanuel, former chief of staff for Obama. Rahm, desperate for relevance and publicity now that he is running for president, is saying there wasn’t a single person in Trump’s top intelligence or defense team he would call in a crisis.

That’s cheap, even for Rahm.

It appears Rahm has forgotten his own famous saying: “You never let a serious crisis go to waste.”

What kind of crisis, Rahm? The crisis when, as mayor of Chicago, you tried to minimize the police murder of a black teenager before an election, by quietly paying off the family hoping that Obama would come to your rescue. (He didn’t). And then you suppressed the police video of the shooting?

That crisis, Rahm?

But not everything is peaches and cream.

The murderous neoconservatives are wedded to blood and their forever wars in the Middle East, and slaughter on behalf of Israel continue their barking and snarling like mad dogs.

In an interview with Fox News, Tuesday, Graham quoted Trump saying that the Israel-Iran ceasefire will allow the region to live “in peace and harmony.”

“There can be no peace between Iran and Israel until Iran decides to change its policy which is the regime policy of destroying the state of Israel and killing all the Jews,” Graham warned. “Until that changes, nothing really changes. the program has been decimated but that people who are in charge will come right back at Israel. So, I’m looking at regime change in this sense.”

Earlier Tuesday, Trump walked back his own suggestions of a regime change.

“I don’t want it. I’d like to see everything calm down as quickly as possible,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One on his way to the NATO summit. “Regime change takes chaos, and ideally, we don’t want to see so much chaos, so we’ll see how it does.”

Will the neocons have America murder a billion Muslims to appease their fellow Iran hawks, either here or in Israel? If there is a roadblock to world peace, do we look at the neocons?

Or does Iran’s Supreme Leader want the Iranian people bombed into the stone age as they bark like baboons, demanding to pursue more nuclear weapons? If he pursues nukes, he must know how things will end for Iran.

Iran, keep f—-ng around and you’ll find out.

Read our lips or have CNN’s $2 million woman Christiane Amanpour read the lips.

Either way: FAFO.

What is tempering my exuberance for Trump’s action is the fact that the American neocons and their forever wars have broken the Middle East, with refugees from neocon forever wars streaming into Europe and the U.S., creating havoc there.

I was once quite supportive of neocons. I supported the Republican wars and the idiotic belief that democracy could take hold among uneducated people who didn’t have the culture to appreciate building a republic. The numbers of American casualties grew and the neocons, the Bushes, Cheneys, all those crooked masters-of-war Democrats and the rest.

And then a U.S. Army sergeant came to see me at “the paper.”

We went for coffee at the Billy Goat. He was on his fourth tour and going back to Iraq to protect his soldiers. He’d been a reader of mine, and he wanted me to know how wrong I’d been.

He said we shouldn’t be sending those young Americans to those shithole countries.

“It’s all bullshit Mr. Kass.”

He explained. All about the pointless casualties as neocons prattled on about “democracy” and “nation building” in the Middle East. And the boys who won’t come home. And that’s when I began turning my back on the neocons and their wars.

What is appalling is that many of the pro-war neocons have played the old anti-Semitism card against those of us who oppose forever wars.

I’ve seen the hysterical charge bounce off the lips of Mark Levin in the hopes of shaming people into line from MAGA who don’t support endless wars. He doesn’t help Israel that way. It is a serious charge that Levin cheapens with cheap hysterics.

And the left used the same ugly charge against me too, with the Jacobins from the leftist newsroom union thinking they could defame me and shut me up because I dared used my column at the Chicago Tribune to oppose leftist billionaire Georg Soros, who was trying to influence the Cook County State’s Attorney’s office.

Chicago has never recovered.

But it didn’t work. I wouldn’t shut up. And I won’t forget. Ever.

And I won’t forget the neocons and their forever wars. And I’ll never forger being defamed as an antisemite by the leftist journalists at the Chicago Tribune Guild because I wanted to protect Chicago from Soros.

But in just a matter of 12 days, Donald Trump and Israel have remade the Middle East. And left wing Democrats just can’t handle that.

 

(Copyright John Kass 2025)

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