In this edition of America First, the President
of the United States tweeted that we're "locked and loaded" to go to war
with Iran and we're just waiting for Saudi Arabia to tell us what to
do. This really is not an exaggeration. "Saudi Arabia oil supply was
attacked," Donald Trump said on the Tweet Machine.
"There is reason to believe that we know the culprit, are locked and
loaded depending on verification, but are waiting to hear from the
Kingdom as to who they believe was the cause of this attack, and under
what terms we would proceed!"
Yes, we are waiting for word from Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman—the guy who allegedly orders journalists critical of him chopped up and thrown in an oven in the backyard of one of his ambassadors, who leads the regime that is helping to perpetuate a human-rights catastrophe in Yemen using American-made weapons, the same regime that just happens to be spending a fortune at Trump's hotels. If the crown prince gives us the go-ahead, we're bombing Iran! America First.
You would think that, having just marked the 18th anniversary of
September 11—a reminder we're now poised to send kids to Afghanistan who
were not born when the attacks happened—we'd be a little more worried
about getting pulled into another quagmire of death and suffering. You
would think that, at this point, we would be re-evaluating our strategy
in the region, including our unbreakable bond with Saudi Arabia. And yet
you could flip on Fox News this morning and find a Democratic senator
from a solid-blue state mongering the war.
How many times are we going to do this? What is the best-case scenario if we enter armed conflict with Iran, which has missiles that can reach deep into Europe and a standing army of well over half a million people?
Will we just bomb them and run? Will we try to topple the regime? Who
will rise to power in the vaccuum? What would victory even look like? Can anyone tell us what it will look like
in the multiple armed conflicts we're already engaged in nearby?
Have we learned fucking anything? How many American kids have to die in the sand and rock before we learn the United States cannot win when it starts blowing things up in the Middle East?
Have we learned fucking anything? How many American kids have to die in the sand and rock before we learn the United States cannot win when it starts blowing things up in the Middle East?
Read more: President Trump Tweets About Possible Iran Strike After Saudi Arabia Oil Bombing
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