He wanted to be seen as backing up a series of bellicose tweets

Oh god. I suppose I knew this but seeing it spelled out is another story. Trump rushed to bomb Syria so that his tweets would be true.

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis urged President Trump to get congressional approval before the United States launched airstrikes against Syria last week, but was overruled by Mr. Trump, who wanted a rapid and dramatic response, military and administration officials said.

Because he’s mentally a toddler. Rapid and dramatic=illegal and reckless and authoritarian.

Mr. Trump, the officials said, wanted to be seen as backing up a series of bellicose tweets with action, but was warned that an overly aggressive response risked igniting a wider war with Russia.

He wanted to be seen as backing up a series of bellicose tweets with action.

He wanted to be seen as backing up a series of bellicose tweets with action.

Think about that, and notice how doomed we are.

He could bellicosely tweet anything. He could threaten to nuke North Korea or China or Russia or anywhere else. He could threaten to declare war, he could threaten invasion, he could threaten to firebomb Mexico or Iran or Germany or any other country he takes a dislike to. He could, and it’s not even unlikely. He talks smack every single day on Twitter, and now we know he wants to be seen as backing that shit up. Why isn’t this code red everywhere?

What inspired the bellicose tweets in the first place? You’ll never guess.

Last Tuesday — amid reports that the U.S. was considering a strike against the Assad regime, in response to an alleged chemical weapons attack against civilians in Douma — Russia’s ambassador to Lebanon Alexander Zasypkin warned that “if there is a US missile attack, we … will shoot down U.S. rockets and even the sources that launched the missiles.”

The Fox & Friends morning crew took exception to this bluster, with one host arguing, “What we should be doing is telling the Russians, ‘Every Syrian military base is a target and if you’re there, it is your problem.’”

Minutes later, one of the program’s most dedicated viewers echoed that belligerent note.

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/984022625440747520

So Fox News holds everyone’s fate in its evil hands.

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