It looks like Donald Trump isn’t totally powerless, but it is scary to see how close this was. He just said that he called off a series of military strikes against Iran just 10 minutes before they were set to take place.
President Obama made a desperate and terrible deal with Iran – Gave them 150 Billion Dollars plus I.8 Billion Dollars in CASH! Iran was in big trouble and he bailed them out. Gave them a free path to Nuclear Weapons, and SOON. Instead of saying thank you, Iran yelled…..
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 21, 2019
….Death to America. I terminated deal, which was not even ratified by Congress, and imposed strong sanctions. They are a much weakened nation today than at the beginning of my Presidency, when they were causing major problems throughout the Middle East. Now they are Bust!….
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 21, 2019
….On Monday they shot down an unmanned drone flying in International Waters. We were cocked & loaded to retaliate last night on 3 different sights when I asked, how many will die. 150 people, sir, was the answer from a General. 10 minutes before the strike I stopped it, not….
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 21, 2019
….proportionate to shooting down an unmanned drone. I am in no hurry, our Military is rebuilt, new, and ready to go, by far the best in the world. Sanctions are biting & more added last night. Iran can NEVER have Nuclear Weapons, not against the USA, and not against the WORLD!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 21, 2019
This was definitely the right decision. The problem is that all the people around him desperately want to do a big war with Iran. They’ve been setting the conditions for months.
Today, the pundits on all the big cable networks including Fox News have been crowing on and on about how we need to do war against Iran over a single unmanned drone.
But if Trump went ahead with the proposed strikes, it would have set off a full fledged war. A war that the American people do not support and a war that does not benefit anybody except for Israel.
It’s a truly bizarre dynamic. Trump doesn’t seem to want to do these big wars, but he’s hired a bunch of assholes who are trying to drag him into all sorts of wars. Why not just fire these neocon clowns and install some people who have sane foreign policy views?
