Originally published at: Trump’s Iran War Objectives Have Collapsed. Now What?
Faulty Assumptions and Hubris The only thing more dangerous than an unbound strongman launching elective wars is when those wars begin to go badly. There’s no telling what President Trump will resort to doing to save face, create the mirage of victory, and extricate himself from the box canyon into which he so triumphantly galloped.…
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Good morning
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Even Thomas and Alito are saying, dude, just give us something to work with - anything - and we’ll do the rest. But WTF are you doing?
…so I call it a military operation.
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Iran might be the “good war” of our generation. It could collapse and then rebuilt the American republic in a much better and robust way. Of course, no war is good. But let’s be aspirational. Visualize the whole administration, enablers, and family in the docket. Visualize gas so expensive Americans embrace not just energy security but economic security. Visualize them recognizing that means things like accessible health care, day care, and education. Visualize them fed up with impunity.
Not vengeance, but justice. Accountability. Democracy. Economic and environmental and national security. No guillotines but prison and confiscation. Visualize them saying, “Let’s not elect fascists and kill children anymore who happen to have noses a little flatter and skin a little browner and pronounce the name of God differently.”
None of this is fantasy, but necessity. We do this or die together. Not hard.
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Good article, but even the Guardian sanewashes to the extent that his decling mental and physical health is never once mentioned.
The war is turning into the ultimate test of an operating principle that has guided Trump for decades: construct a narrative, declare it to be true and relentlessly force the world to submit to it. It has proved effective in Manhattan boardrooms, on reality television and even at the heart of power in Washington.
But in Iran, Trump’s unique brand of “truthful hyperbole” has collided with the truthful truth. His reality distortion field has run into a brick wall.
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Obviously I’m not a fan of TCF but that is also disturbing. Only in America would that sign be made.
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Sayin’ the 1984 out loud.
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I tried that and almost suffocated.
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And here is the NYT article with the Ballroom graphic.
From the Brain (?) of the “best builder and developer in the world”.
(How do these people look in a mirror in the morning?)
Free article.
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I thought it was questionable so I took it down.
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When TCF sees that he’ll blow up Antarctica really good.
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“If there’s trouble on the deck, look to the bridge.” – Navy saying
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