Sikhs across the world strongly support Pope Leo in opposing the grotesque march toward war with Iran—a nation that has not attacked the United States. We have squandered tens of billions of taxpayer dollars bombing Iranians, only to push ordinary people into the arms of their hard-line government.
This is a tragic misreading of history. The Iranian people have long yearned for freedom. But when they experience foreign bombing and threats, they rally around the very forces many once questioned.
Retired General Stanley McChrystal, speaking on Amanpour & Co., acknowledged a truth often ignored: the UK–US overthrow of Iran’s democracy and the theft of its oil fueled the anger that erupted into the 1979 Islamic Revolution and the theocracy that followed. History did not begin yesterday.
We repeated the same irrational policies after 9/11—“Shock and Awe” in Iraq, a 20-year failed war in Afghanistan that abandoned our translators and worsened the plight of girls, and intervention in Libya, now a failed state. Hundreds of billions were spent while Americans struggle with high prices and an uncertain future.
We boast of being the world’s greatest military power, yet ignore the moral and financial costs of endless war. Many lawmakers—and the Trump Administration—have behaved scandalously in cheering these destructive paths.
It is time for moral clarity, historical honesty, and a firm rejection of another catastrophic mistake.
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