Wurr locked n loaded
What kind of idiot pretending to be president goes on Twitter to say we’re “locked and loaded”?
Saudi Arabia oil supply was attacked. There is reason to believe that we know the culprit, are locked and loaded depending on verification, but are waiting to hear from the Kingdom as to who they believe was the cause of this attack, and under what terms we would proceed!
How not to do foreign policy, how not to inform the public, how not to conduct war, how not to do diplomacy, how not to collect intelligence, how not to do government work – how not to do pretty much everything.
President Trump seems ready to let murderous Prince Mohammad bin Salman decide whether and when we strike Iran. So we have a Saudi Commander in Chief. Welcome to Trumplandia.
As the diplomatic crisis deepened, Trump tweeted that reports he had been willing to meet with Hassan Rouhani, the Iranian president, before the attacks were false. “The Fake News is saying that I am willing to meet with Iran, ‘No Conditions.’ That is an incorrect statement (as usual!),” he tweeted on Sunday.
But political commentators were quick to point out that those comments came from Pompeo and treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin, who five days ago said on camera that Trump was willing to meet with Rouhani with “no preconditions” at the upcoming United Nations General Assembly in New York.
In other words we have complete amateurs in charge of all this and we’re doomed.
Over the weekend a senior commander from Iran’s Revolutionary Guards warned that the Islamic republic was ready for “full-fledged” war.
“Everybody should know that all American bases and their aircraft carriers in a distance of up to 2,000km around Iran are within the range of our missiles,” the head of the Revolutionary Guards Corps’ aerospace force, Amirali Hajizadeh, was quoted as saying by the semi-official Tasnim news agency.
Saudi de facto ruler Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has said the kingdom was “willing and able” to respond to this “terrorist aggression.”
Somebody should remind Trump of the Saudis’ role in 9/11, and then remind him again 5 minutes later, and go on doing that until his pulse stops.
One would think it would be enough to remind him that the Saudis murdered Khashoggi in their own embassy. Or that they’ve slaughtered countless Yemenis with their indiscriminate bombing. Or that taking military action without the prior consent of Congress and with no imminent threat to the US is unconstitutional.
That is, one would think that if one knew nothing of the current President*.
And meanwhile Trump is telling another of his stupid lies (stupid because they’re so easily refuted), this time claiming that reports that he’s willing to meet with Iran without preconditions are fake news.
I think of the last words of the Sibyl:
“I WANT TO DIE.”
Trump reminds me of that InGen exec Peter Ludlow in The Lost World (Jurassic Park 2) who worked so hard to get killed by the T-Rex by making the wrong decision every single time. Unfortunately, with Trump, the “T-Rex” likely isn’t going to stop with him.
He probably assumes the T-Rex won’t eat him, because, well, because he’s Donald J. Trump. Because he’s a stable genius. Because he’s willing to feed the T-Rex with all the Americans he doesn’t like (which, frankly, is probably all the Americans not named Donald J. Trump).