Wind Bag In Chief ^
Regarding Iran, Obese Donald tweeted, “If Iran wants to fight, that will be the official end of Iran.”
Wow — the official end of Iran! What does that even mean? Are we going to drop a nuclear weapon on Iran, a country of 80 million people? This is the language of someone who has never been around military power and has an exaggerated sense of what it can accomplish. It’s the language of someone who plays a commander in chief — on TV.
Then again, to even ask “What does it mean?” about a Trump tweet is ridiculous, since he clearly fires these things off without any deep thought or a prior strategy session in the Situation Room.
Trump tried to one-up Obama with Pompeo’s 12-step program. But it has not worked. And now Iran’s countermove — in response to the U.S. withdrawal from the nuclear deal and reimposition of sanctions designed to drive Iran’s oil sales to zero — has reportedly been to deploy proxies and covert operatives to attack oil and gas tankers passing through the Persian Gulf, forcing the U.S. to protect all of those shipping lanes.
That is hugely expensive for the U.S. and overstretches the Navy. We need allies to confront this Iranian strategy successfully. But Trump has alienated our allies by his incessant lying, his tariffs on their products and his rejection of their willingness to try to renegotiate the Iran nuclear deal in a limited way.
Meanwhile, on North Korea the Trump administration has adopted its own version of precisely what it criticized the Obama administration for: “strategic patience.” Trump is turning a blind eye to mounting evidence that the Kim regime continues to develop missile capabilities that can hit us.
When asked by George Stephanopoulos of ABC News about North Korea’s reported recent violations of his understandings with Trump, Trump said: “I don’t know. I hope not. He promised me he wouldn’t.”(
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Well …. I guess it's true that you cannot teach an old dog new tricks. It seems that the planet earth cannot be managed in the same way that a family real estate business can. Obese Donald is hugely entertaining and a con artist extraordinary but as POTUS ……. dangerously incompetent.
"Society in those days was a perfectly competent, perfectly complacent, ruthless machine." Virginia Woolf 1897