Condemning the War, Not the People: The distinction between US foreign policy and the American public response
America’s Historical Mistakes and Corrections: From slavery to modern wars—patterns of error and reform
The ‘No Kings’ Protests Across the United States: Mass mobilization against the Iran war and authoritarian tendencies
Growing Public Opposition to the Iran Conflict: Opinion polls and rising dissent within the US
Economic and Human Costs of War: Oil prices, cost of living, and the impact on American families
Leadership Crisis and Constitutional Questions: Debates around executive power and the 25th Amendment
A Democratic Society in Self-Correction Mode: How public resistance reflects deeper democratic resilience
Amid criticism of the US-Iran war, this analysis argues that the American people are not the enemy. From nationwide “No Kings” protests to rising public opposition, it explores how US society is challenging its leadership and confronting the consequences of war.
Long live America
By Justice Markandey Katju
Many people are cursing Americans for the unprovoked and unjustified attack on Iran by US-Israeli forces from 28th February 2026, and the barbaric killing of Ayatollah Khameini, many senior officials, 165 primary schoolgirls, etc and bombing of hospitals, radio stations etc.
However, I still say that 95% Americans are good people, as I said in these articles :
As I said therein, like all people in the world, Americans too have made some big mistakes e.g. supporting slavery at one time, segregation and discrimination against blacks, the Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan wars, etc and now the brutal, unjustified, and unprovoked war on Iran.
But I have also said that later Americans realised their mistake and largely corrected them.
They are now doing the same with regard to the ongoing Iran war, and that is by the 'No Kings' protests going on in almost all American cities, ( like those at the time of the Vietnam war ) to protest against the totally unwarranted, unjustified, and ill conceived war on Iran, and the autocratic, high handed and domineering policies of President Donald Trump, who has been behaving somewhat like the maniacal Roman Emperors Nero, Caligula and Commodus, the Stuart and Bourbon Kings, the mad King George III of England, or the sanki ( whimsical ) Mohammad bin Tughlaq in India
Many people have spoken against the war with Iran
Opinion polls show that most Americans oppose the war, and this opposition is bound to increase as prices of oil soar upwards, the cost of living in America goes up, and body bags of dead US soldiers start coming back to America to be received by wailing relatives seething with anger at this misconceived and asinine war.
Unless Trump changes his present unhinged and delusional policies, the time may soon come for Americans to invoke the 25th Amendment to the US Constitution, to give him a well-deserved rest.
(Justice Markandey Katju is a former Judge of the Supreme Court of India, and former Chairman of the Press Council of India. The views expressed are his own.)
