Well, here we are, again. Another war built on misinformation, also known as lies, driven by domestic politics, incompetence and still, of all things, a surreal quest for a Nobel Peace Prize. Oh, and hubris, which Merriam-Webster defines as “extreme, excessive pride, arrogance, or overconfidence, often leading to a person’s downfall or ruin.” Or a country’s.

By the time I was born, we already had our toe in Vietnam getting in deeper as the French, who reclaimed their colony after World War Two, gave up in 1954 and left. After about 50,000 of our military personnel died in combat supporting the corrupt side of a civil war, we bailed, too, with little to show for it beyond the bravery of our line troops plus two or three more million dead among the French, their allies, and Vietnamese combatants and civilians. The Bush-Cheney Iraq war was sold on false pretenses and the idea the Iraqis would cheer our arrival making it easy for us to set up a new regime. Oopsie.

And now were turning an unprovoked invasion without immediate urgency or congressional approval (thank you, feckless Republicans) into a religious crusade led by a president whose dubious claim of Christian virtue attracted votes, and who used Easter for a violent profane rant, and his bullyboy secretary of defense who seems bent on Armageddon happening on his watch. Meanwhile, the Iranian military, which has been preparing for years, is fighting the desert equivalent of 1960s jungle warfare except now we’re dealing with religious zealots armed with missiles and leverage.

“A whole civilization will die tonight…,” Trump posted this morning. A woman living in Tehran told a New York Times reporter: “I think Trump is under a lot of pressure and that he has lost his mind.”

Or you might think back to the 2016 presidential campaign when candidate and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said of Trump, “This is not someone who should ever have the nuclear codes. Because it’s not hard to imagine Donald Trump leading us into a war just because somebody got under his very thin skin. He is not just unprepared. He is temperamentally unfit to hold an office that requires knowledge, stability and immense responsibility.”

So, good luck suckers, especially we losers who had the good sense not to vote for him, although now all of us are equally screwed.