- Trump’s rapidly evolving rhetoric towards Iran…
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Dear Reader,
The president conducts a swiftly evolving… “diplomacy.”
The one day he claims the feuding birds of Iran and Israel WILL soon attain negotiated peace.
The following day he demands of Iran UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER!
That same day he claims “we” are the masters of Iranian skies.
Further, that “we” have chosen to spare Iran’s Ayatollah Khamenei — for the moment at least:
- We know exactly where the so-called “Supreme Leader” is hiding. He is an easy target, but is safe there – We are not going to take him out (kill!), at least not for now. But we don’t want missiles shot at civilians, or American soldiers. Our patience is wearing thin. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
Yet who, precisely, are we?
Should the president not refer to “they” — they being the Israelis?
Trump Contradicts Gabbard
Meantime, the president has swatted aside the judgment of his Director of National Intelligence.
Ms. Gabbard claimed recently the Islamic State was not chasing after a nuclear device.
Yesterday the president responded that:
“I don’t care what she said. I think they were very close to having one.”
Will the statement “Tulsi, you’re FIRED!” soon come issuing from the president’s lips?
I do not know. Yet I do not wager against it.
Meantime, the president quit the G-7 confabulation in Canada one day early.
Yesterday he and his courtiers huddled solemnly in the White House’s Situation Room.
“All options” fell under discussion, evidently.
All the while, naval and air elements of the United States armed forces descend upon the region.
Thus the question comes surfacing: Is President Trump taking to the warpath?
Trump’s Evolution
The New York Times:
- Five days after Israel launched its attack, Mr. Trump’s posture continues to gyrate. The administration at first distanced itself from the strikes, then grew more publicly supportive as Israel’s initial military success became evident.
- Now Mr. Trump is seriously considering sending American aircraft in to help refuel Israeli combat jets and to try to take out Iran’s deep-underground nuclear site at Fordo with 30,000-pound bombs — a step that would mark a stunning turnabout from his opposition just two months ago to any military action while there was still a chance of a diplomatic solution.
The president may have dispatched his vice president to telegraph his intentions.
Yesterday Mr. Vance posted a message that the president “may decide he needs to take further action to end Iranian enrichment.”
Which precise form ”further action to end Iranian enrichment” might take, the vice president did not reveal.
Yet I hazard it is not a polite letter of request.
I hazard the action under consideration is rather more… muscular.
Never Do Your Enemy a Little Bit of Harm
I do not know if Mr. Khamenei will buckle beneath President Trump’s rhetorical sledgehammering.
He may very well. Yet it is possible he will not.
Yet to abridge Mr. Machiavelli, “Never do your enemy a little bit of harm.”
You must harm him grievously if you are to harm him at all.
Else you merely pump him full of wrathful vengeance… while preserving his capabilities.
Should Israel — and potentially the United States — fail to wreck entirely Iran’s nuclear apparatus… they will have done Iran a little bit of harm.
The Iranians would likely consecrate all remaining capability to the production of nuclear devices.
Thus Israel — and again, potentially the United States — are compelled to translate Iran’s deeply dug nuclear facilities into tombs.
Only the 15-ton behemoth “bunker-busting” bombs of the United States Air Force stand the merest chance of effecting the translation.
I am not at all certain they can — my spies inform me Iran’s nuclear facilities at Fordow squat beneath several hundred feet of rock.
Yet only the United States can even attempt the caper.
I am confident — I am certain — that Mr. Netanyahu has drummed the fact against the president’s skull.
Would the American People Support an Attack on Iran?
In yesterday’s Evening Vanguard I suggested that a negotiated peace would likely prevail.
Yet the president’s subsequent barks have altered my calculus some.
The latest evidence suggests he intends to do Iran grievous harm… and not a little bit of harm.
Grievous harm entails the destruction of the Fordow installation.
I concede, as always, that I may be proven incorrect. And tomorrow my position may rotate 180 degrees.
Would the American people get in back of it — in back of direct military intervention?
A YouGov poll reveals that a mere 16% of Americans believe the United States should enter the fray directly.
60% believe it should not. 24% are not certain.
Sure as sugar, many “America First” devotees are among the dissenting 60%.
They constitute much of the president’s base of political backing.
Peace Means No Iranian Nukes
What message does he tell them? This message:
- Well, considering that I’m the one that developed ‘America First,’ and considering that the term wasn’t used until I came along, I think I’m the one that decides that. For those people who say they want peace — you can’t have peace if Iran has a nuclear weapon. So for all of those wonderful people who don’t want to do anything about Iran having a nuclear weapon — that’s not peace.
Just so. Yet neither is war peace.
And once the canines of war are freed from their leashes… who can say how long… or how far… they will run?
I am pleased I do not stand in Mr. Trump’s size 12 dress shoes.
I would find them highly uncomfortable at this time.
Mr. Mike Huckabee is the United States ambassador to Israel. He is a man bulging with Christian faith.
Concerning the decision to assault Iran — or not —Mr. Huckabee says the president “will hear from heaven.”
He begs the president to listen to “HIS voice.”
Assume HE delivers the divine message. And assume HIS voice penetrates his ears.
Let us pray HE offers him superior counsel — and that he heeds HIM.
Brian Maher
for Freedom Financial News
P.S. Again, I’ll let you fine folks decide what to run here.
