In October of 1983 220 US Marines were killed in a barracks attack in Beirut, Lebanon. A few days later Ronald Reagan, who throughout his presidency touted his hawkish diplomacy with Clint Eastwood movie quotes, invaded Grenada http://www.warhistoryonline.com/cold-war/the-invasion-of-grenada.html. The Grenadian military, supplemented by the Cuban army, was and is one of the smallest fighting forces in the world. The Ohio National Guard could have defeated them. This was Reagan’s attempt, despite the United Nations declaring it an “unprecedented violation of international law” to restore his image after the fiasco of US Marines being caught flatfooted. The response was not to go after the killers of the 220 Marines but to crush a small country, capable of only minimal resistance.
Trump’s Grenada…
South Carolina Republican Senator , Lindsey Graham invoked the name of the Republican saint a few days ago, “ All I can say about this president is he has the instincts of Ronald Reagan in many ways”http://thefederalistpapers.org/us/sen-lindsey-graham-just-compared-trump-to-reagan. On the heels of relentless failures in both the Congress and public opinion polls, the atrocious and inhumane chemical attacks by Bashar al-Assad came at just the right time for Mr. Trump. The President, having been moved by tv images of children gasping for breath, dropped nearly a hundred million dollars’ worth of American armament on a vacated airfield in Syria. By the way, within 24 hours the airfield was fully operational. Mr. Trump had warned the Russians, who in turn told Assad to abandon the area long enough for President Trump to play war games http://fox2now.com/2017/04/07/shayrat-what-we-know-about-the-syrian-airfield-hit-by-us-strikes/.
I pride myself on not being a wild-eyed conspiracy theorist but this one may be the worse bungling since Watergate. The Trump administration cannot keep its ducks skimming the pond, more or less paddle to safety. UN Ambassador Nikki Haley is talking removal of Assad, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson says the policy of non regime changed has not altered and National Security Adviser HR McMaster is playing whack a mole http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/first-read/trump-s-white-house-offers-mixed-messages-syria-n744556. Meanwhile the American press is writing and reporting how Donald Trump has once again, “become Presidential.”
When does the realization that he must be President 24 hours a day set in?
For a few days, the press was again complicit in pulling the President’s chestnuts out of the fire, Gorsuch is a win, Assad was delivered a message and according to Lindsey Graham the ghost of saint Ronnie has arisen a week before Easter Sunday, HALLELUJAH!
I hope this ménage a trois of Putin, Assad and Trump is quickly revealed, neither of them bothered to kiss us before they had a war-gasm.
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