Enough sane-washing. He’s Gen. Jack Ripper mad.
Shades of Ender’s Game (2013). Except Ender Wiggin had a conscience. Donald Trump does not:
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Airstrikes hit two bridges and a train station in Iran on Tuesday, and Iranian officials urged young people to form human chains to protect power plants, as U.S. President Donald Trump warned that a “whole civilization will die tonight” if Tehran does not meet his latest deadline for the Islamic Republic to agree to a deal that includes reopening the crucial Strait of Hormuz.
The U.S. also struck military targets on the Iranian oil hub of Kharg Island, according to a White House official who was not authorized to speak publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity. The attack marked the second time the island was targeted. Earlier in the war, American forces struck air defenses, a radar site, an airport and a hovercraft base there, according to satellite analysis by the Institute for the Study of War and the American Enterprise Institute’s Critical Threats Project.
“He’s threatening nuclear war with the kind of language they’d use to promote a special episode of Celebrity Apprentice,” writes historian Kevin Kruse.
No more whistling past the graveyard, members of Congress, members of the press. Treat this lunatic as a lunatic.
I fantasize that someone high up in the military chain of command stands up and refuses Trump’s orders, and one after another, others stand up to join her/him like at the end of Spartacus (1960). But then I’ve seen too many movies where people behave like heroes.
Update: Paul Krugman weighs in. I agree. Today would be a good day for members of Congress to march en masse down Pennsylvania Ave. and stage a sit-in outside the White House gates. Talk is cheap.