Atticus
Atticus's JournalAs I understand it, the Trump rationale for the assassination of Soleimani amounts to "he had
the blood of Americans and our allies on his hands and we think it likely he would attack us in the future."
If this is the new "Trump Doctrine", I have a question: when are we going to kill Putin?
Sadly, my first reaction to tonight's news of our targeted assassination of Iran's Qud force
director was "Well, there it is---Trump has his war!"
And, later, when the official US statement about the attack was read and predicated the attack as a "defensive" strike necessary to prevent planned attacks on our personnel, my reaction we---and is---disbelief. Until it is corroborated by sources not allied with or beholden to Trump, I will not believe any such justification for an act of war without Congressional approval.
And, make no mistake: we are worse off than leaderless. The man who is claims Constitutional authority to "do whatever he wants" not only will use the coming war for his own political advantage, he has control of our nukes and has often questioned why he can't use them.
The United States of America has been placed in mortal danger by the idiot in the White House and he has no idea what to do about it.
Note to TV programmers: when Joe Lieberman appears on your screen, you lose
this viewer. Every time. No exceptions.
In the primary, I will vote for the person I believe---with my imperfect knowledge---has the best of
defeating Trump. In the general election I will vote for whoever Democrats nominate and for every Democrat below them on the ballot.
Period.
We were right, damn it. Not bragging 'cause it was not at all difficult. We knew, you see,
that Trump was almost as qualified to be POTUS as he was to dance ballet. Frankly, we put those who claim that they are just now coming to understand how totally unfit this man-baby is to be leader of the free world into two categories: the truly stupid and the soulless birds of a feather who have coldly calculated that his days are numbered.
"I didn't know---" "I never realized---" "I was just doing my job---"
We've heard this all before, but it was more impressive in the original German.
We were right back when we were "alarmists". We were right back when we were "sore losers"; when we were just "liberal snowflakes" who "hated America". And, we are right now; now that we are once again just Americans with a little common sense and just enough backbone to get downright incensed when our leaders piss on our shoes and tell us it is raining.
Here's hoping 2020 is a better year than the past three.
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