Bombing Iran back to Stone Age is not a winning strategy. So why does Idaho’s delegation support it?

By: Jim Jones

Outlets: Idaho Capital Sun

Published: August 4, 2026

Words: 786

Last Updated: 2 weeks, 1 day ago

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Donald Trump proclaimed on July 26 that he was going to “beat the f**king s**t out of” Iran. This was in response to an Iranian missile attack on a U.S. base in Jordan. Earlier, in his meandering April Fools’ Day speech, he had vowed to send Iran “back to the stone ages.”

His incantations remind me of the famous 1965 words of Gen. Curtis LeMay, a former Air Force chief of …

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