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Trump's ALL-CAPS War
The Iraq War was rolled out over months. With Iran, Trump tried to condense the pitch, conflict and peace to 72 hours of childish fantasy.Donald Trump started a war against Iran. Or didn’t. Maybe Israel did, and he helped, or Israel struck without warning and made him look weak and out of control, so he claimed he helped. He issued ultimatums to Iran, which they ignored, and then he bombed Iran, and it worked and they had a nuclear weapons program, or it worked and they didn’t, or it didn’t work at all and can’t because we lack follow-through. Oh well! Trump then announced a ceasefire that he brokered, which probably didn’t exist, and which he probably didn’t broker if it did, but which Israel and Iran probably never committed to, and either way they didn’t obey.
Aside from the prospect of mass death, it’s a little funny to watch what happens when someone used to underlings rearranging reality to resemble his fantasies runs headlong into those who won’t play along. What a difference noncompliance makes! It kills the sense of the possible, like a concert audience sitting on its hands or an improv troupe made of people who were taught to say, “No, but …” Here on Planet Imagination, rotating along the N.Y.-D.C. Acela Axis, Iran and Israel’s mulish adherence to their own sovereignty seems like the hobgoblin of little minds. They’re making the president look like a joke he didn’t tell. Clearly, they don’t know what the fuck they’re doing.
Aside from the prospect of mass death, it’s a little funny to watch what happens when someone used to underlings rearranging reality to resemble his fantasies runs headlong into those who won’t play along. What a difference noncompliance makes! It kills the sense of the possible, like a concert audience sitting on its hands or an improv troupe made of people who were taught to say, “No, but …” Here on Planet Imagination, rotating along the N.Y.-D.C. Acela Axis, Iran and Israel’s mulish adherence to their own sovereignty seems like the hobgoblin of little minds. They’re making the president look like a joke he didn’t tell. Clearly, they don’t know what the fuck they’re doing.
Like every crime Trump commits, the road to Tehran is paved with precedent. Those arguing simultaneously for bombing and regime change in Iran have been wrong about the power of the former to accomplish the latter since it was first argued in WWII. Essentially everyone wrong about the invasion of Iraq is back to apply the same motivations and motivated reasoning to Iran, and the only thing keeping their pitch from being literally identical is a single stubborn letter in each nation’s name. Some daydreams truly are forever.
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/trumps-all-caps-war/