{"id":3521,"date":"2026-07-18T05:35:57","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T05:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=3521"},"modified":"2026-07-18T05:35:57","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T05:35:57","slug":"pentagon-officials-fear-trump-trapped-us-in-forever-war-thanks-to-his-obama-vendetta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=3521","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon officials fear Trump trapped US in &#8216;forever war&#8217; thanks to his Obama vendetta"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>President Donald Trump has become trapped in a \u201cforever war\u201d with Iran not because of some strategic goal, but because of a personal vendetta against one specific person: former President Barack Obama. <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=3519\">Canadian PM ignites MAGA fury with science lesson<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is according to Salon White House columnist Brian Karem, who on Friday <u>wrote<\/u>, \u201cI think it\u2019s obvious Donald Trump cannot and will not end the war he started with Iran. I don\u2019t think it has a chance of ending until he\u2019s out of office.\u201d What\u2019s more, Karem isn\u2019t the only one who thinks so, writing, \u201cAt least three people I still talk with inside the Pentagon believe it. Former national security experts I\u2019ve known for years from both political parties believe it. More importantly, it\u2019s apparent Donald Trump is now admitting it.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Karem cites a number of Trump\u2019s recent statements that suggest he has little interest in winding down the war, instead raising the idea that the U.S. might expand its presence in Iran, potentially by putting boots on the ground. As Karem points out, Trump has also offered what are at best inconsistent justifications for the war. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf this sounds like the Vietnam War,\u201d notes Karem, \u201cit\u2019s only because it is eerily similar, but with a Trumpian twist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That twist involves Trump\u2019s true motivation: his grudge toward Obama, which he expresses openly. As Karem writes, Trump has said the war is necessary because, \u201cThey would\u2019ve never made a deal with Obama. That deal was the worst deal. What they did sign was a worthless piece of paper. What they signed, what they signed with Obama was a worthless piece of paper that was a road to a nuclear weapon.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Karem notes that the truth is quite the opposite. Obama\u2019s Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action took 20 months to forge and successfully extracted nuclear concessions from Iran. But as Karem explains, \u201cTrump tore up the JCPOA during his first administration, and Iran once again began enriching uranium. So while he complains that Iran won\u2019t make a deal, perhaps it is because the agreement we had with Iran was torn up simply because Trump was still livid with Barack Obama after Obama made fun of him at the annual White House Correspondents&#8217; dinner in 2011.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=3517\">Civil war erupts as red state GOP leader blisters Trump: report<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was there,\u201d notes Karem. \u201cI remember Trump\u2019s face. He was mad then and he\u2019s still mad now. He hates Obama for making fun of him then\u2026.Trump has sought revenge against Obama by trying to undo everything Obama did as president.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump has argued that his goal is to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons, but according to Karem, \u201cThe truth is we are now five months into a war that was <u>supposed to last only four weeks<\/u> but that we \u2018<u>won\u2019 in two days<\/u> over a weapons program that was \u2018<u>obliterated<\/u>\u2019 in June 2025. Meanwhile, the bombs keep falling, and Trump doesn\u2019t care. But it goes far deeper than that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Karem goes on to provide a lengthy list of issues Trump has made clear he \u201cdoesn\u2019t care\u201d about, from whether the war ends, to lowering housing prices, to preventing ICE from killing people in the streets, and more, even noting that he was unworried about dying on his unprotected Air Force One gifted by Qatar, saying that if he died he would take reporters on the plane with him. The bottom line is that Trump \u201cdoesn\u2019t care,\u201d and as Karem notes, even those in the president\u2019s orbit refer to him as a \u201csociopath.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf Trump is as dangerous as some claim,\u201d writes Karem, \u201cand I believe he may well be, and if he is determined to continue hammering Iran, then I wonder this: how dangerous is the president of the United States to himself and others? Does he represent an existential threat? His discussion of dying in an unprotected Air Force One and taking reporters with him, and his constant acknowledgement of threats against his life, are sobering and concerning. We can all see he is physically unwell. Many of us believe he is mentally fading.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Karem concludes on a dire note, writing, \u201cHe won\u2019t and can\u2019t end the war in Iran because he doesn\u2019t want to do so, and because the Islamic Republic obviously doesn\u2019t trust him. &#8230; At the end of the day, we\u2019re staring at an unhinged president who began the war for intensely personal reasons. He is desperate to run Obama through the mud, and he doesn\u2019t care who suffers as he does it. Let\u2019s be honest: if Donald Trump can\u2019t get his way, he wants to burn it all down.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=3515\">\u2018Peacemaker\u2019 president Trump has botched an awful lot of peace: conservative<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump has become trapped in a \u201cforever war\u201d with Iran not because of some strategic goal, but because of a personal vendetta against one specific person: former President Barack Obama. 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