st<\/sup>, 2019<\/i><\/p>\nWe\u2019ve been hoping, all sane people have been hoping, that America could avoid a major international crisis before Trump was driven from office. No American president in history has been less equipped, mentally, morally or cognitively, to deal with a crisis that could result in a general war.<\/p>\n
Iraqis, perhaps backed by Iran, occupied the US embassy deep in the \u201cgreen zone\u201d in Baghdad. People who remember America\u2019s pointless occupation of Iraq will remember the green zone. It was supposed to make the hundred million dollar embassy the US built in that captive city impregnable.<\/p>\n
Well, not so much, as it turns out. As Trump golfed, the embassy was occupied by protesters.<\/p>\n
Trump finally bestirred himself to tweet, \u201cThe U.S. Embassy in Iraq is, & has been for hours, SAFE! Many of our great Warfighters, together with the most lethal military equipment in the world, was immediately rushed to the site. Thank you to the President & Prime Minister of Iraq for their rapid response upon request….\u201d<\/p>\n
OK, that sounds almost sane. OK, the bit about \u201cWarfighters\u201d and other lethal stuff being immediately rushed to the site, the bluster of a weak leader caught with his pants down.<\/p>\n
But then it got Trumpweird. He continued in the next tweet, \u201c….Iran will be held fully responsible for lives lost, or damage incurred, at any of our facilities. They will pay a very BIG PRICE! This is not a Warning, it is a Threat. Happy New Year!\u201d<\/p>\n
Yup. Because there\u2019s nothing weird about making an open threat and following it up with a holiday greeting. You see it all the time in Hollywood, \u201cNo, Mister Bond, I expect you to die. Happy Valentine\u2019s Day.\u201d \u201cYippie Kie Yay, motherfucker. Merry Christmas.\u201d \u201cPerhaps I\u2019ll kill you tomorrow, Wesley. Happy Candlemas.\u201d<\/p>\n
It\u2019s weird, but in fairness, Trump had a more important issue on his mind: the optics: \u201cThe Fake News said I played golf today, and I did NOT! I had meeting in various locations, while closely monitoring the U.S. Embassy situation in Iraq, which I am still doing. The Corrupt Lamestream Media knew this but, not surprisingly, failed to report or correct!\u201d Well, the GOP wasted tens of millions of dollars and thousands of Congress hours trying to crucify Hillary over the non-scandal of whether she allowed Benghazi to happen. He knows how much trouble those noisy, sanctimonious, cowardly loudmouths on the right can create with such made up scandals. He should know: he was part of that deplorable crowd.<\/p>\n
OK, the possibility of a general war in the middle east, once that could involve Russia is small potatoes next to the possibility that the pseudo-journalistic trash of the right wing media might turn on Trump and launch their endlessly dishonest propaganda.<\/p>\n
So Trump doesn\u2019t have a clue about how serious the situation in the middle east is right now, but rather whether it might drown out his constant whines about being impeached. That\u2019s what makes him such a great leader.<\/p>\n
Fortunately, not all of government is filled with vacuous and corrupt morons like Trump and Moscow Mitch. Chris Murphy, Democratic Senator from Connecticut, wrote a memorable series of tweets in response today that not only spells out how we got to this juncture (incredible incompetence from the Administration, and malign policies from Russia and Israel), but what it means, and why it could turn into a bloody fiasco that could cost many lives, not just of people living in that region but Americans as well. Rather than try to sum up what he wrote in a masterpiece of concise thinking, I\u2019ll just repeat the texts here:<\/p>\n
The attack on our embassy reminds us of all Trump’s Middle East disasters:<\/p>\n
1\/ Emboldened Iran starts attacking U.S. targets;
\n2\/ Turkey invades Syria;
\n3\/ Saudi Arabia gets away with murder;
\n4\/ Israeli\/Palestinian peace slips out of reach.<\/i><\/p>\n
And that’s just the start\u2026<\/i><\/p>\n
4\/ Thousands of Yemeni children continue to die in a U.S. fueled civil war;
\n5\/ Iran restarts their nuclear program;
\n6\/ Saudi Arabia and Qatar break relations, pushing Qatar to Iran
\n7\/ Turkey buys weapons from Russia, breaking NATO’s back<\/i><\/p>\n
8\/ Brutal crackdown on political dissent in Egypt ramps up
\n9\/ U.S. abandons Kurds to die in Syria, leaves our bases for Russia
\n10\/ U.S. hold on aid to Lebanon weakens their army, empowers Hezbollah
\n11\/ ISIS begins to regroup in Iraq, breaks out of prisons in Syria<\/i><\/p>\n
The list keeps going, but the point is this:<\/p>\n
The attacks on our embassy in Iraq (and Iraq’s unwillingness to defend us) is – on this last day of 2019 – a reminder of how catastrophic this year has been for U.S. interests in every corner of the Middle East.<\/i><\/p>\n
The attack on our embassy in Baghdad is horrifying but predictable.
\nTrump has rendered America impotent in the Middle East. No one fears us, no one listens to us.
\nAmerica has been reduced to huddling in safe rooms, hoping the bad guys will go away.
\nWhat a disgrace.<\/i><\/p>\n
What a disgrace indeed. A lot of people think tomorrow is the dawn of a new decade (it\u2019s not, but that\u2019s for another time), and here we are, facing a massive international crisis with a deranged shitgibbon at the wheel.<\/p>\n
He\u2019s going to get us all killed, Happy New Year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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