Why Trump Lost to Iran - The Atlantic By David Frum

[usonian]

Archived at https://archive.ph/GO28d

Trump started the February 28 war for reasons of personality, not strategy. He is on his way to losing the war for the same reasons of personality.

A litany of personality defects leading to this blunder is given, not including "Weapons of Mass Distraction" from Epstein.

Trump’s vision of the presidency is authoritarian and kleptocratic: Issue orders, grab money, luxuriate in flattery, erect monuments to oneself. That’s no way to lead a nation through the hazards and difficulties of war. Now the war is ending on disadvantageous terms for the United States. Trump’s old methods will be turned to a new task: trying to deceive the American people and the world into believing that the war he lost was really a big win, the biggest ever, so big you cannot believe it. He’s likely to discover that, indeed, nobody does believe it.

[dalton99a]

1. Kick

[orthoclad]

2. Well, Bibi started the war, not Trump,

who was just a useful idiot. Politicians the world over have learned how to manipulate T, it's easy. The major country to benefit from cracking Iran is Israel, with some Bonesaw Arabia thrown in.

[spanone]

3. K&R

[Skittles]

4. he's a draft-dodging coward, too

don't forget that

[dem4decades]

5. 30% will believe it.

[LeftInTX]

6. I got a kick out of this sentence:

Trump apparently decided that a problem that was too hard for everybody else would magically disappear for him, because he is tough and growls in his official photographs.