Trump’s Gaza plan was real
Looks like we’re going to do it again…
The United States and Israel have discussed the possibility of Washington leading a temporary post-war administration of Gaza, according to five people familiar with the matter.
The “high-level” consultations have centered around a transitional government headed by a U.S. official that would oversee Gaza until it had been demilitarized and stabilized, and a viable Palestinian administration had emerged, the sources said.
According to the discussions, which remain preliminary, there would be no fixed timeline for how long such a U.S.-led administration would last, which would depend on the situation on the ground, the five sources said.
The sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity as they were not authorized to discuss the talks publicly, compared the proposal to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq that Washington established in 2003, shortly after the U.S.-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein.
I love this droll observation by Reuters:
The authority was perceived by many Iraqis as an occupying force and it transferred power to an interim Iraqi government in 2004 after failing to contain a growing insurgency.
Yeah, no kiddingt.It was the worst American foreign policy failure since Vietnam. But sure! Let’s do it again!
I can’t believe this is serious but why wouldn’t it be? Trump wants that Nobel Peace Prize and no doubt thinks that a little ethnic cleansing and beak wetting is an excellent way to do it.
I thought that was probably the worst story of the day. But then I saw this:
Senior presidential adviser Kari Lake appears to have resolved any doubts about what she wants to do with the Voice of America.
Lake seeks for it to look and sound a lot like the far-right One America News Network: on Tuesday night she announced that she had struck a deal to serve up the pro-Trump outlet’s news reports for Voice of America’s foreign audiences, at no taxpayer cost.
It would be better to just shut it down after all.
Is it too early to start drinking?