The American people are not onboard with what's going on in Iran.

The war is turning into the ultimate test of an operating principle that has guided Trump for decades: construct a narrative, declare it to be true and relentlessly force the world to submit to it. It has proved effective in Manhattan boardrooms, on reality television and even at the heart of power in Washington.

Trump is an influencer who believes in the power of suggestion. The American people are not on board with what’s going on because he cannot articulate an argument for why we’re there or what victory actually looks like. Above all it is immoral both in substance as well as in execution.

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Picklebobble2 · 61-69, M

Trump knows carpet bombing is easy and he has no problem taking (whatever passes for 'intelligence' out there) such action as long as it plays well in whatever polls he's been told to follow.
No matter how many apartment blocks his (or maybe Netanyahu's) missiles hit.

He made that stupid statement trying to encourage the population to 'rise up', and when people did he didn't follow through with support and as a result protesters have been arrested; beaten to death on the streets or taken away from their families presumably to be tortured for information (a familiar step in the Iranian crackdown on dissent playbook) Never to be seen again.

Any way you slice it for every 'positive' from this decision there seems to be ten 'negatives'.
And those of you that follow history will be aware that we're probably about to see a return to the old days of 'terrorist cells' infiltrating allies in the region if not far closer to home.

sunsporter1649 · 70-79, M

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Picklebobble2 · 61-69, M

@sunsporter1649 But he's not crushing it is he.
If he were he'd be talking to who he sees as the replacement regime

sunsporter1649 · 70-79, M

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Vin53 · M

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