https://newrepublic.com/post/208026/trump-pearl-harbor-iran-embarrassment
Look: For the sake of the people of Iran, I hope Trump’s gamble ends up paying off. But history tells us that all kinds of unexpected things happen in war. That’s why democratically accountable leaders generally don’t launch them without having really thought matters through (that the United States has defied this dictum twice in this century will linger as a dark stain on this country’s reputation for many decades to come).
We shouldn’t even accept the presumption that Trump Derangement Syndrome applies to people like us. It does not. The people who suffer from TDS in this country are the ones who support him. And it’s getting worse: This week, Nate Silver found Trump’s approval slipping into uncharted territory, and approval of the war generally polls in the 30s—but at the same time, an NBC News poll discovered that among self-identified MAGAs, Trump’s approval stood literally at 100 percent to zero.
They’re the ones with TDS. You and I have Trump Awareness Syndrome. We see his un-thought-out war—and by the way, if it’s almost over, why is he asking Congress for $200 billion?—and we hear him utter vacuous and offensive statements like the Pearl Harbor remark, and we know all too well what he’s doing to this country. Awareness is a far heavier burden than derangement.
You remind me of the schizophraenic who thinks everyone else is crazy because they can't hear the voice.
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ReplyDeletea thought out war is notoriously difficult to go according to plans. IN 1982, Britain fought Argentina to retake the Falkland Islands, and with superior air and se power were successful in ejecting the invaders.
Putin's big military thought their Ukraine special op would be simple. Brezhnev's Afghanistan adventure didn't turn out too well either.
The war is not over yet, and btw, the initial plan was not regime change, so the lack of such an outcome cannot be caleld a failure.