THE "IRANIAN-CAUSED & PERPETUATED" FOREVER WAR! - - - Ancient-Rooted Evils Waging World War III Against 21st Century Civilization!

THE "IRANIAN" FOREVER WAR: 

While many “experts” worry about President Trump getting us into a “forever war” with Iran the reality is that we have been in a forever war with Iran since 1979 when they seized the American Embassy, held 66 diplomats hostage for 444 days and began chanting “Death to America” while describing the United States as “the Great Satan.” Matt Turpin on substack outlined the history of the Iranian war against the United States: “Over the past five decades, the Islamic Republic of Iran and its proxies killed over a thousand Americans.

“There was the truck bombing of the U.S. Marine Barracks in Beirut and killing of 241 American service members on October 23, 1983, the deadliest day for the USMC since Iwo Jima. Those Marines were there as a part of a multinational force that was meant to provide peace and stability during the Lebanese Civil War as Iran sought to use Hezbollah to destabilize the country and the rest of the Arab world, spread its Islamic Revolution, and attack Israel.

In March 1984, Iran’s Hezbollah kidnapped, tortured and killed CIA Station Chief William Buckley on his way to work in Beirut and six months later conducted a car bomb attack killing 23, including two U.S. service members, at the U.S. Embassy annex in Beirut.

“In December 1984, they hijacked a Kuwait Airlines flight to Pakistan and tortured and killed two U.S. government officials on the flight.

In June 1985, they hijacked a TWA flight from Athens to Rome, found a U.S. Navy diver on the flight, tortured him, then shot him in the back of the head and tossed his body on the tarmac in Beirut.

In December 1989, they killed U.S. Marine Colonel William Higgins after torturing him for a year. He had been serving on the United Nations peacekeeping force in Lebanon, a mission authorized by the United Nations Security Council.

In April 1995, Iran used their other proxy group, Islamic Jihad to conduct a car bomb attack in the Gaza Strip which killed eight, including one American who was likely the target.

In 1995 and 1996, Iran conducted a number of attacks in Israel targeting Americans and Israelis resulting in seven Americans killed and more than 100 wounded.

Iran used Hezbollah again in 1995 and 1996 to conduct attacks against American service members in Saudi Arabia, killing six in a car bombing in November 1995 and another 19 at Khobar Towers in June 1996.

In August 1998, Iran and Hezbollah assisted Al-Qaeda suicide bombers in simultaneously attacking two U.S. Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, killing 224 people including 12 Americans.

Between 2001 and 2003, Iran and its proxies killed another 13 Americans in Israel.

During the Iraq War, Iran was linked to killing at least 600 U.S. troops. This was roughly one in every six fatalities in Iraq.

One attack was January 2007, when a dozen men from Iran’s IRGC Quds Force disguised themselves as U.S. soldiers and entered the Provincial Joint Coordination Center in Karbala and killed five U.S. soldiers and wounded three others.”

Let’s be clear President Trump is trying to END the 47 year long forever war and forced Iran into peaceful policies. Those who favor being soft on the religious dictatorship are in fact perpetuating the forever war not ending it.

                                                                            ---Newt Gingrich*

[*The above was copied from Newt Gingrich 04/21/2026 11:16 AM FB Post]

“Our” U.S. National Debt

  
As countless among “we the people” continue to expect, demand, or at least tolerate more and more of our wants and real or imagined needs being fulfilled in some fashion by what is actually “our” federal government . . . it would seem fitting that “at least occasionally” some special and hopefully responsible attention be given to the various consequences thereof. Such as, but not limited to, the fact that, as of this April 2026 writing, $39 “our” National Debt now exceeds some Trillion (i.e., over $113,000 per U.S. Citizen, or beyond $357,000 per U.S. Taxpayer). As in turn the “interest alone” on this historically ever-increasing debt also now exceeds some $1 Trillion!

And as one exercises the likely futile attempt to truly grasp the size of a single Trillion (let alone 39 Trillion) of anything, many may also ponder just how did we ever manage to create such a mind-boggling debt? One that by any reasonable consideration constitutes a most shameful and liberty-threatening legacy . . . an unimaginable and grossly unconscionable burden being passed year after year to our country’s children, grandchildren, and the not yet born. Through human behaviors driven in large measure by years of yet ongoing ignorance, apathy, complacency, denial, counter-productive fear, and greed. All self-destructively distracting from the inescapable reality that “our” National Debt is (and not so simply so) the amount of money “our” federal government has borrowed over time to cover spending more money (e.g. for an array of federal programs) than received (e.g. from federal income taxes). Or, as otherwise put . . . debt in likeness to that created for example through continued use of a credit card for purchases while never paying off the full balance each month, etc.

And just how do “we the people” accommodate our federal government borrowing money on our behalf to make up for spending more than received (e.g. via taxes) . . . well, simply by, for example, selling marketable securities such as Treasury bonds, bills, notes, and Treasury inflation-protected securities (TIPS), etc. Hence, “our” National Debt is the accumulation of such borrowing along with the associated interest owed to the “investors” who purchase these securities. “Investors” primarily made up of “we the people,” via the Federal Reserve, government trust funds, and domestic investors; as well as various government agencies such as Social Security funds and federal employee retirement funds, etc.; with typically about a quarter of the debt also owed to foreign creditors such as Japan, China, and the United Kingdom; etc.

Of course, timely and responsible handling of our National Debt might over time be ultimately achievable, that is, were it not for obstacles such as a long-standing and ever-growing “pathology of dependency.” Where “pathology” is defined as something abnormal and a deviation giving rise to social ills, and “dependency” the state of being dependent. Yes, a growing dependency upon irresponsible Federal Government spending and borrowing. In large measure a very much greed-based dependency that also fosters some special aversion to essential “sacrifice” . . . that is, unless of course the required sacrifice is to be borne by someone other than ourselves. A very much fact of life and dark side of human behavior . . . and a lesson soon learned, for example, by any politician ever attempting to pursue the political suicide path of encouraging or otherwise supporting any measure even approaching what might be a true fix for our self-inflicted National Debt dilemma!

As a result, and until “we the people” and our elected government representatives muster up the collective courage and willingness to do otherwise, we might at least from time to time say some serious prayers for future generations. As again many among us continue to self-servingly expect, demand, or at least tolerate more and more of our wants and real or imagined needs being fulfilled by our federal government. While in exchange for votes and other considerations, many elected government representatives continue to be ever so willing to use their positions in government to satisfy our and their respective cravings. All while in turn continuing to “irresponsibly disregard” the many destructive consequences, and an array of reality-founded cautions such as: “I place economy among the first and most important virtues, and public debt as the greatest of dangers to be feared . . . To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt . . . We must make our choice between economy and liberty or profusion and servitude . . .” —Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), third U.S. President; and “Liberty dies when we choose comfort over courage” —Clarence Thomas (born 1948), an Associate Justice of U.S. Supreme Court since 1991.

                                                  ---William James Moore 04/2/2026

Deep Fission—The Risks vs Benefits???

 

The following is a copy of a Public Opinion article (Letter to the Editor) I submitted to our local newspaper, the Parsons Sun on 03/28/2026 . . . followed by a Scanned Copy of same article published by the Sun on 03/31/2026.

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Deep Fission—The Risks vs Benefits???


To the Sun:

As earlier and very responsibly reported by the Parsons Sun and others, on December 9, 2025, Deep Fission, a California-based company, broke ground at the Great Plains Industrial Park, Parsons, Kansas, on what the company calls a pioneering underground nuclear reactor project. One reportedly serving as a pilot for the company’s proprietary Gravity nuclear reactor designed to operate entirely underground, with the aim of demonstrating a new approach to advanced nuclear energy production.

Some four months later, however, it seems there still exists a yet to be satisfying public understanding of the true “risks vs benefits” of this particular project, and of the “new approach” to nuclear energy production it reportedly entails. A here and now “information void” calling to attention an in general nuclear power plant history that has over the years included some very noteworthy and alarming disasters. Each attesting not only to the importance of timely “gaining” accurate and comprehensive “risks vs benefits” understandings, but also how crucial it is to “responsibly deal with such.”

Think not . . . then strongly recommended is a bit of personal research supporting a fact-based memory-jog through a few related disasters, such as the: (1.) 1979--Three Mile Island Nuclear Accident in the U.S.; (2 .) 1986--Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Disaster in Ukraine; and (3.) 2011--Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant Disaster in Japan. Of course it is worthy of note and special consideration that each of these particular disasters entailed nuclear power plants with “above-ground” nuclear reactors. Whereas Deep Fission’s reactors reportedly will be some “one mile underground” and entail (also worthy of note) relatively “new technology” with apparently little to no tried and proven historical track record to lean on, etc.

At this point it also seems especially important to recall that for years millions have lived, and continue to live, but a few miles from a nuclear reactor. In the United States alone there are many, including, for example, the Wolf Creek Nuclear Generating Station in Burlington, Kansas . . . a mere 83 road miles (or about 70 as-the-crow-flies) from Parsons. Human-made nuclear facilities, each very much “double-edged swords,” i.e., providing great benefits while at same time entailing a range of risks . . . including those potentially devastating. For example, the loss of both primary and backup power for just a few hours at any of these facilities could lead to a meltdown resulting in the release of a deadly radioactive plume into the atmosphere. And in the event of a major disaster at one or more of these facilities, countless people could be killed, injured, or contaminated with life-threatening radiation. Parts of our environment could be contaminated and rendered uninhabitable for years to come. Survivors could be displaced permanently from their homes and property and lose everything. Likewise, our food supply, utilities, police and medical support, communications systems, and government functions could be critically disrupted or destroyed. And these scenarios are not fiction-based. They are realistic generalizations of the types of tragedies our world has experienced in the past, and can again in the future. Reminders of the truly critical obligation we have to present and future generations to “responsibly” deal with nuclear energy—and of the consequences, should we fail to do so!

And then there’s the ever-challenging risks and responsibilities involved in handling and long-term storage of Nuclear Fuel waste. Yes, although after a nuclear reactor’s fuel is determined no longer efficient and must be removed, it is still highly radioactive and thermally hot and therefore must be handled remotely and shielded. Our U.S. national inventory of commercial spent nuclear fuel reportedly totals many thousands of metric tons, and is stored at various urban, suburban, and rural locations throughout many states. And some nuclear waste, such as high-level waste from defense nuclear activities, will reportedly remain radioactive and hazardous for hundreds of thousands of years . . . with no guarantee that our human-designed waste packages and storage methods can safely and otherwise effectively contain such material for that long.

Of course, life’s journey entails a magnitude of “risks” . . . e.g., by way of the air we breathe; the food we eat; the water we drink; the medications and medical services we rely upon; the hobbies, entertainments, and employments we pursue; the forms of transportation we use; threats foreign and domestic; etc. Some we recognize and understand, others we don’t; those we accept, ignore, avoid, confront, or try to mitigate; those we responsibly deal with, and those we handle otherwise; etc.

And so, as the Deep Fission Nuclear Project at the Great Plains Industrial Park continues to evolve, hopefully the true “Risks vs Benefits” will not only soon be forthcoming, but also properly communicated and responsibly dealt with. Hence fulfilling a crucial need and responsibility to present and future generations . . . through rational critical-thinking human behaviors hopefully void of self-destructive ignorance, apathy, complacency, denial, counterproductive fears, and greed. —William James Moore Parsons, Kansas 03/28/2026

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[ Inserted "below" is some 04-07-2026 "follow-up" to the above. ]

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