From The
Idiot Factor:
Last Tuesday the US endured one more ignorant foreign
policy blunder by our brutish-buffoonish President Donald Trump, as he pulled this
country out of the Iranian nuclear deal. The consequences of this
action may be grim. It could actually lead this country into war, as Amanda Erickson,
of The Washington Post, suggested early today.
Very few
countries in Europe are happy with Trump’s actions. I’m not a fan of the
Iranian regime, but I also don’t really believe that Iran’s government
seriously wanted to build a nuclear bomb. The agreement did provide some peace
in a region that is constantly at war. We simply don’t need to be at war with
Iran.
Each morning, as
I sit at my breakfast table and get ready for work, I realize that the
Republican Party has provided us with a president that is so despicable that I
want to throw a brick through my TV set. Every few years we get someone as
contemptable as Trump—such as Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan or George W. Bush.
These are leaders who make sure those of us who are poor, common workers and
people on the left, feel exclusion as their right-wing policies are forced on
us. Wealthy elites are given a glutton of tax breaks, freebies and an
atmosphere of complete control over the working people they command. Workers
are left powerless in an atmosphere where they have no control over their own
destiny. Poor people are relentlessly attacked with a kind of pogrom that deprives
them of almost everything they need to survive. Foreign policy under these
leaders is an orgy of jingoism and relentless war against all who would dare to
question the mighty US Empire.
And this action,
pulling out of the Iran nuclear deal, is based on a desire for war against a
perceived opponent as well as contempt for the former President Barack Obama.
This is a major action based on intolerance of a non-Christian nation and a
left-wing (at least compared to the far-far-far-far-far right-wing attitudes of
Trump) president.[1] I should
point out that a few Republican presidents, such as Gerald Ford, were able to
lead this country without the blatant contempt that the other leaders inflicted
on us. That’s not to say Ford’s policies were very different, just that he
wasn’t in our faces so much as the other leaders.
Trumps scuttling
of the Iran deal is straight-out contempt of any action taken by former
President Obama. Trump argues that he can get a much better deal. He has
re-introduced sanctions that will hurt the people of Iran. He has threatened
countries, in Europe, who may find themselves in violations of Trump’s own
unilaterally inflicted sanctions. He, and his flunkies, such as Secretary of
State Mike Pompeo, have insisted that other countries that do business with
Iran won’t be able to do business with the US.
Trump claims he
can do something about Iran’s use of terrorism. What he is really referring to
is Iran’s support for proxy armies, such as Hezbollah. The US and its allies, such as
Saudi Arabia, are doing the same kinds of things. We don’t call
it terrorism when we do it. But the actions are the same. Saudi Arabia is
trying to create its own little mini-empire, mostly in Yemen. They
have been actively carrying on their own “terrorism,” such as recklessly
bombing civilian targets. So Trump has two different standards for countries in
the Middle-east. Proxy armies are terrorism if our opponents do it, but taking
part in wars and expanding conflicts are just the norm for the US and its
allies.
Iran and Israel
have already traded
missile attacks in Syria, just after Trump’s announcement to pull
out of the deal, which has proven Amanda Erickson’s prediction that the action
would result in war. Trump is so sure he can develop a better deal with Iran
that he is willing to put other people’s lives on the line. He is willing to
risk the lives of US soldiers, along with those of our allies and the lives of
both military and civilians in Iran.
We are seeing
the actions of a swaggering bully who wants the citizens of the world to
realize that the Trump “Empire” is something our president takes seriously and
he is willing to bet the lives of other people to prove to himself.
Pix from History | Washington State University.
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