Why?

That’s what we’re all asking right now. Actually, two “whys.”

The first is: Why did we go to war with Iran? Was it because Donald Trump wanted to raise his plummeting poll numbers by convincing Americans to rally around the flag? Was it to distract from his involvement in the sordid Epstein affair? Perhaps he needed to take people’s minds off the fact that his tariffs and chaotic economic policies have failed to deliver the greatest economy in the history of mankind.

Is Trump so smitten with Netanyahu that he feels obligated to fight his wars for him? The American people deserve a straight answer from Donald Trump. But we’ll never get one, because who knows what goes on in that pinball machine between his ears.

The second, more important why is this: Why do millions of Americans still support Trump? This senseless, expensive, tragic war should be all the evidence that anyone needs to see that Donald Trump and the Republicans in Congress who enable him — including Susan Collins — are not fit to run this country.

Even those who agree with Trump’s and the Republicans’ agenda must surely see that they got nothing out of this unnecessary war but 13 dead and 380 wounded military servicemen and women, higher gas prices and ballooning national debt and catastrophic harm to our international reputation.

As we go to the polls in November, everyone needs to remember these disastrous weeks of pointless war and ask ourselves … why?

Mark Daugherty
Falmouth