... cools it down. Last night Iran launched missiles at Iraqi bases housing American soldiers which killed and injured no one. This seems a calculated charade designed to save face. Iranians are very proud people ... so prideful that they would risk destroying themselves to prove themselves manly.
One could liken this possible ruse to a participant in a duel first shooting into the ground. Once President Trump realized what Iran was doing, however risky, he proclaimed, “All is well.” In other words, you have displayed your masculinity and regained a measure of your pride ... now I will step back and see what you do next. If the ayatollah is satisfied with this charade, Trump unlikely will respond in force. He, known as an unpredictable hothead, seems satisfied with cooling things down. He has unloaded his bazooka and seems to want to see what Iran does next.
Perhaps, this bunch of testosterone-crazed mullahs will now be finally ready to sit down and negotiate a real nuclear treaty ... and stop their reign of terrorism? Wouldn’t that be nice ... and a real win for Trump’s foreign policy.
Afterward: Just read the Diplomad’s take on things. He has an even more interesting spin ... the Iranians actually gave up Soleimani ... see: The Diplomad.
Trump cannot keep his foot out of his mouth. In his speech today, he went to great lengths to blame Obama for enabling Iran's proxy wars - implying that we gave giving them billions of American taxpayer money (which everyone knows is a lie). BTW Iran was complying with the terms of that nuclear agreement.
ReplyDeleteBecause Trump is a constant liar, we cannot believe anything he says now, about casualties or damage.
He doesn't seem to realize that someday (hopefully soon) he will be succeeded by another president who will no longer be bound by tradition to refrain from blaming previous administrations for the world mess. History will not treat him kindly.
So sayeth Edward Gibbon ...
ReplyDeleteIs Trump's reign really on a par with the Roman Empire?
ReplyDeleteYou are reading too much into my comment. I was satirically comparing your sense of what history will say about Trump to Gibbon’s grasp of history.
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