Having watched nearly three-years of Donald Trump working, haltingly but stubbornly, to reestablish the great and republic-preserving pillars of American foreign policy — non-intervention and neutrality — it is clear that the trail toward those goals is long, winding, and, far too often, a process that yields two steps forward and one step back.
It was most encouraging to see Trump let the Neocons – especially Bolton, Abrams, Pompeo, and such of their mouthpieces as Ben Shapiro, Mark Levin, and Bill Kristol – make perfect jackasses of themselves via their botched handling of the none-of-America’s-business Venezuela problem. These wretches thereby showed Americans how desperate they are for war, and how utterly useless they are in the conduct of a U.S. foreign policy that serves the republic’s only genuine foreign-policy goals; peace; few if any foreign political and/or military entanglements; a deterring military, capable – in mind, skills, and material – of total victory in the rare cases that demand war-fighting; freedom of the seas for trade and prosperity, and the maintenance of full sovereignty and independence of action.
The Neocons made a humiliating hash of Venezuela, achieving nothing but failure in driving the two socialists enemies – Guaido and Maduro — into each other’s arms for talks in the convivial atmosphere of Scandinavia, safely away from the suffering both have inflicted on Colombians with their socialist economic policies and their attendant authoritarian rule. The living conditions of the latter clearly were worsened by the bumbling of Bolton, Abrams, and Pompeo. Trump might just as well have assigned their job to the Marx Brothers, and could have expected better results from a Groucho-led effort
Over the past three weeks, however, my sense was that the Trump administration was going to take the one step backwards mentioned above on the issue of America’s now forty-year old, unnecessary, on-again/off-again, quasi-war with Iran. The drama came to a head last week when the Iranians were identified as the entity that shot down an unmanned, U.S. military drone that reportedly was flying over international waters.
Per media reporting, President Trump, on Friday, approved a limited military response against Iranian missile-and-radar sites, but then stopped the operation about 30 minutes before it was to occur. Earlier in the day, the media showed film of Pelosi and Schumer nearly dancing with joy after the president told them of the attack plan, probably in anticipation of large monetary bonuses from their AIPAC masters, an expensive war they could blame on Trump, and the shelving of growing public and conservative-media interest in Obama’s corrupt deal with Iran, which eventually will put him, Valerie Jarret, Ben Rhodes, Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry and his State Department team, and a number of U.S. general and intelligence officers in prison or, far better, on the gallows.
Trump’s stated reason for stopping the strike – too many Iranians would have been killed in revenge for a crashed, unmanned drone – is fair enough and hard to criticize, except for those Neocons and another of their spokesmen, Chris Wallace of FOX News. As readers of this space know, I am relatively unconcerned by any number of foreign casualties if the U.S. military is ordered to respond to an attack that killed Americans and so long as that response is meant to be overwhelmingly decisive to end the confrontation, not to begin a decades-long, tit-for-tat, inconclusive, and blood-and-treasury-draining conflict.
Trump’s correct decision to stop the airstrike, however, will not end the issue with Iran. Indeed, one can wonder if the president is not giving the Neocons and Israel-Firsters enough rope to hang themselves. Clearly, the recent limpet-mine attacks on oil tankers in the Persian Gulf and the shoot-down of the drone were attacks produced by the republic’s above-named worst domestic enemies, as well as by Israel’s military and intelligence operatives and, most maddeningly, members of the U.S. military and intelligence services and, almost certainly, their human assets in the Gulf and Iran.
Trump and his team, I suspect, have laid out the bait for a trap that could be the finale of this edition of the Iran war, and perhaps a start toward the end of all of it. The president said that it was not appropriate to kill 150 Iranians because an “unmanned” drone was shot down, adding that the loss of U.S. military personnel in te attack would have produced an entirely different kettle of fish. These words are high-stakes stuff, as they clearly are meant to suggest that Trump would have attacked Iran had the attack by the republic’s domestic and foreign enemies on the U.S. military killed U.S. Marines, soldiers, or airmen.
Given that people like Bolton, Shapiro, Levin, Abrams, and Kristol do not give a tinker’s damn about how many Americans die in defense of Israel’s interests, there certainly will be another attack meant to kill U.S. military personnel, probably soon. There also is the chance, of course, that those who staged the attack on the drone may simply skip a second attack, meant to kill American troops, and instead try to murder President Trump.
If Trump’s is running the sort of operation just speculated about, he should be saluted, supported, and prayed for. It is a sophisticated operation, one lethally dangerous to those tasked with its execution, and one that requires superb intelligence and near-perfect timing. It is, in the strongest possible sense, an America First policy, one that would expose U.S. citizen traitors and facilitate the quick purge of Obama appointees from the U.S. military, diplomatic, and intelligence services
Most important, a Trump victory would first luridly disclose, and then destroy, the deep, war-causing corruption driven and paid for by wealthy Jewish-Americans, their organizations, and their overseas friends, and publicized by their legion of media shills. A Trump win also would put on public display for flaying those men and women who have been purchased to champion pro-Israel policies and make them the law of the land — both de jure and de facto — a cast that stars almost 535 bought-and-paid for senators and congressmen, and their large supporting cast of intelligence directors, general officers, and senior civil servants. If that happy result occurs, what more need be said than “Sic Semper Tyrannis” or, a bit more coarsely, “String ’em up”.
