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Zorro

(15,691 posts)
Sat Jun 22, 2019, 01:42 PM Jun 2019

Trump's Slouching Toward War With Iran Is a Disgrace

President Trump has been all over the place on Iran, which is what happens when you take a serious subject, treat it with farcical superficiality, believe braggadocio will sway a proud and ancient civilization, approach foreign policy like a real estate deal, defer to advisers with Iran Derangement Syndrome, refuse to read any briefing papers and confuse the American national interest with the Saudi or Israeli.

This American slouching toward another Middle East war has been a disgrace, shot through with the twisting of truth or outright lies. Now Trump has approved, only to reverse, a retaliatory strike for the Iranian downing of an American drone, an aptly chaotic culmination to the drift the president has allowed.

The 11th-hour calling-off of military action was the one wise decision Trump has taken on Iran since he took office. Dazzled by Saudi blandishments, Israeli veneration, the opportunity to trash Barack Obama’s diplomacy and the lure of evangelicals’ votes, Trump determined from Day 1 that the Islamic Republic was the enemy from Central Casting. His view was unburdened by any serious assessment of how to balance toughness and engagement in the long-traumatized American-Iranian relationship.

The United States does not need the war with Iran that John Bolton, the national security adviser, and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo seem determined to deliver. It would be a war of choice, illusion and irresponsibility. It would place Americans at risk across the Middle East, with no benefit to the United States or its allies.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/21/opinion/trump-iran.html

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Trump's Slouching Toward War With Iran Is a Disgrace (Original Post) Zorro Jun 2019 OP
And I say that American taxpayers and those whose sons and daughters would have to ... SWBTATTReg Jun 2019 #1
Who's the author of this opinion piece? DonViejo Jun 2019 #2
It's a column by Roger Cohen, who used to be NYT's foreign correspondent, I think. Demit Jun 2019 #4
Good article!Thanks Karadeniz Jun 2019 #3
"....the enemy from Central Casting" Skittles Jun 2019 #5

SWBTATTReg

(21,859 posts)
1. And I say that American taxpayers and those whose sons and daughters would have to ...
Sat Jun 22, 2019, 01:54 PM
Jun 2019

serve in a war zone, heaven forbid, because of these idiots blatant, out in the open, desire to have war at almost all cost, to serve their own personal interest. If they do so (at their own personal interest, they should be charged with a war crime, for (1) at their own interest, not the American taxpayer interest/all American interests (2) lying / hiding to cover up the true reason for war, and not an attack by Iran other than a little drone being downed).

You would think that they (republican soothsayers) would have learned by now their lessons of the Bush years claiming mass weapons of destruction and none found. Enough already. And if they do go to war, the republican idiots will have made the biggest mistake of their political and personal careers ever.

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