"Right now, the most effective thing you can do is flood Congress with calls to show that the American people don't want to go to war with Iran," said the advocacy group Demand Progress.
Because Trump doesn’t like losing. Iran has already shot down four F-35Is, plus dropping bombs all over Tel Aviv to the horror of the Israelis who thought Iron Dome made them impervious to consequences. The 2002 Millennium Challenge already taught us that an invasion of Iran would be a bloodbath far in excess of our Iraqi Adventure. And Trump fucking knows it, because he was one of the most public critics of Bush’s War back when popular opinion soured in 2008.
He needs someone in the room who can convince him that Iran will be a quick and easy win. Alternatively, someone willing to hand him a truly prodigious new bribe. And if he sees Israelis getting their teeth kicked in? While MBS and the Qatars are sitting on the sidelines making the “stop fucking our shit up, we don’t need this right now” hand gestures?
Like, that’s the whole thing about Donnie. He’s a mercenary, not a Cheney-style Neocon with delusions of global domination. If this were Costa Rica or Tunisia or Cyprus? A country that couldn’t hit back? Ab-so-fucking-lutely. Same reason he was so eager to drop bombs over Yemen (until they hit back and he got annoyed at his Beautiful Generals pooching it).
But he doesn’t want to go down as The President Who Lost An Aircraft Carrier. When he’s got a liquored up fuckboi as his Secretary of Defense and he routinely disses his own commanders for incompetence, he doesn’t need this right now. Less actual wars, more sending in the Marine Corps Gestapo to gun down rioters in LA.
He doesn’t want to do this on his own.
But he’ll happily let Congress do a big vote to take the blame.
Because Trump doesn’t like losing. Iran has already shot down four F-35Is, plus dropping bombs all over Tel Aviv to the horror of the Israelis who thought Iron Dome made them impervious to consequences. The 2002 Millennium Challenge already taught us that an invasion of Iran would be a bloodbath far in excess of our Iraqi Adventure. And Trump fucking knows it, because he was one of the most public critics of Bush’s War back when popular opinion soured in 2008.
He needs someone in the room who can convince him that Iran will be a quick and easy win. Alternatively, someone willing to hand him a truly prodigious new bribe. And if he sees Israelis getting their teeth kicked in? While MBS and the Qatars are sitting on the sidelines making the “stop fucking our shit up, we don’t need this right now” hand gestures?
Like, that’s the whole thing about Donnie. He’s a mercenary, not a Cheney-style Neocon with delusions of global domination. If this were Costa Rica or Tunisia or Cyprus? A country that couldn’t hit back? Ab-so-fucking-lutely. Same reason he was so eager to drop bombs over Yemen (until they hit back and he got annoyed at his Beautiful Generals pooching it).
But he doesn’t want to go down as The President Who Lost An Aircraft Carrier. When he’s got a liquored up fuckboi as his Secretary of Defense and he routinely disses his own commanders for incompetence, he doesn’t need this right now. Less actual wars, more sending in the Marine Corps Gestapo to gun down rioters in LA.
He doesn’t want to do this on his own.
But he’ll happily let Congress do a big vote to take the blame.