An Unhinged President
by tristero
Leave it to Donald Trump, with his innate reckless stupidity to manage the stupendous feat of turning Qasem Sulaimani, one of the more ruthless human beings on the planet, into an international martyr.
The only beneficiary of Trump's mad decision will be George W. Bush who, until last week, had created the single worst foreign policy blunder the US ever engaged in (the unnecessary invasion of Iraq). Trump has now perpetrated something that is even worse for the United States (and the rest of the world).
The NY Times:
General Milley and Mr. Esper traveled on Sunday to Mar-a-Lago, Mr. Trump’s Palm Beach resort, a day after officials presented the president with an initial list of options for how to deal with escalating violence against American targets in Iraq.
The options included strikes on Iranian ships or missile facilities or against Iranian-backed militia groups in Iraq. The Pentagon also tacked on the choice of targeting General Suleimani, mainly to make other options seem reasonable....
There is a toxic version of normalizing Trump. There simply are no words to describe how idiotic such a decision-making strategy is when dealing with someone as impulsive and volatile as Donald Trump. And the consequences of their stupidity will be staggering.