President Trump approved military strikes against Iran in retaliation for downing an American surveillance drone, but pulled back from launching them on Thursday night after a day of escalating tensions.
As late as 7 p.m., military and diplomatic officials were expecting a strike, after intense discussions and debate at the White House among the president’s top national security officials and congressional leaders, according to multiple senior administration officials involved in or briefed on the deliberations. …
The operation was underway in its early stages when it was called off, a senior administration official said.
(The New York Times, June 20, 2019)
“Cold feet”? No, cowardice!
Like I said, he’s a bullying, bloviating coward. And I don’t see how anyone who works for this fool, let alone those of us who warned he would be thus, can have any confidence in his leadership.
More to the point, you know Russia’s Putin is telling Iran’s Rouhani and every other rogue leader that they have nothing to fear from this president.
Putin can cite the fact that Russia has yet to suffer any real consequences for launching that notorious cyberattack on the 2016 presidential election. Reports are that heads of US intelligence agencies are trying to defend the country behind Trump’s back. This, because he’s become such a dotard, they can’t trust him with the nation’s top secrets. No doubt, after his panic attack last night, heads of US military services will begin doing the same.
Putin can also point to the pathetic way Trump has backed up his threats to rain down fire and fury on North Korea with nothing but unrequited, puppy-dog expressions of love. This explains reports that he has dispatched everyone from Japan’s Abe to France’s Macron to beg Iran’s Ayatollah to sanction a summit; you know, like the potemkin ones he’s had with North Korea’s Kim. You can’t make this stuff up.
Far from making America great again, this spineless buffoon is making it the greatest international laughingstock of all time. And you know even he knows he has embarrassed himself – given that he hasn’t tweeted a word about this turn of events.
In fact, he hasn’t tweeted about anything since 8:22 last night. This suggests that his panic was so severe, his medical team had to put him in a straightjacket.
But when they unleash him, I fear he will find international regard for his manhood so shriveled up, he’ll order some feckless, wag-the-dog stunt to make himself feel manly again. On guard – Honduras…?
At the very least, brace yourself for more self-flattering, self-deluding, face-saving tweets from this “Twitter tiger.”
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