And so the nightmare only deepens.

Iran's military strike against Israel yesterday was inevitable.

Israel knew it was inevitable.

That's because about two weeks ago Israel bombed Iran's consulate in Damascus, killing two Iranian generals and five military

officers.

Now, put bluntly, you only bombed the consular of a foreign state.

If you know that that foreign state is almost inevitably going to strike you back.

If a foreign state blew up an American consulate somewhere,

killing two American generals and five American military officers,

we all know what would happen.

The US would launch a massive military intervention against the offending nation.

If say Iran blew up the Israeli consulate somewhere.

Again, we all know Israel would bomb that country.

That is not by the way to justify these hypothetical responses or indeed Iran's

military response, neither is any sort of sympathy for the Iranian regime,

despite the claims of many of my own critics on social media, who, unlike me, do actively

support unpleasant regimes like Saudi Arabia if we're going there.

You see, unlike the people who I oppose, I don't support any of these military escalations,

whoever does them. I'm on team stop bombing things.

A lot of bombs have been dropped this century. Oh believe me, a lot of bonds and

those bombs have not made this world a better place to live quite the opposite.

They have slaughtered huge numbers of people, maimed, huge numbers of people, traumatized huge numbers of people and devastated entire societies. The consequences have been absolutely catastrophic

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