I woke up from a nightmare last night. What I remember of it, is that I was struggling to get my disabled mother away from the bombs falling from the sky. She c

I woke up from a nightmare last night. What I remember of it, is that I was struggling to get my disabled mother away from the bombs falling from the sky. She can't walk, and in my dream, she was telling me to let go. Unlike most nightmares, I wasn't relieved after I woke up. As a matter of fact, we're too close for that nightmare to become our reality. As an expat with his family back home, I follow US media with great concern. From the the drone shoot down to the tanker seizure, I see little to no nuance with the kind of narrative they create around this crisis. It feels eerily familiar. It has too much in common with the months leading up to the 2003 Iraq war. This happens across the political spectrum on mainstream media. One might expect the likes of Fox news to tell the most lopsided story. But when it came to this crisis, it was MSNBC that would host the most hawkish panels. In their effort to make the current administration look weak, they seem to spare no effort in showing Iran as completely in the wrong, and demanding the admin to respond with force, and mocking it when it does otherwise. To them, it's a simple "tactic" on a single news cycle. To us, it could be one "tactic" too many, and our entire nation's hope for peace and prosperity is ruined for generations to come.