Afrasianet - The Guardian newspaper published a report by David Smith, in which he said that US President Donald Trump is competing with his decision to strike Iran and assassinate its leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, his predecessor George W. Bush, in the worst decision ever made by a president in US foreign policy.
Trump turned a half-century of foreign policy upside down in an eight-minute video in a new attempt to overthrow a regime in the Middle East. He said what he did would be immortalized in the memory. While Franklin D. Roosevelt declared war in a grim tone in front of a joint session of Congress, Donald Trump did so in his own way.
The U.S. president wore a white hat that read "USA."Wearing a dark jacket and an open-collared white shirt, he stood behind a blue podium with the U.S. presidential logo and a black microphone with the American flag behind him, most likely at his Mar-a-Lago, Florida residence. He reneged on his election promise to avoid the threat of eternal wars, leaving FIFA president Gianni Infantino with questions about why he was awarded a fake peace prize.
"There's also a beautiful medal that you can wear wherever you want," a sycophagus Infantino told Trump in December. Trump wasn't wearing that medal on Saturday. He even gave a performance that would have made football fans chant: "Are you George Bush in disguise?"
Bush dragged the United States into a tragic war in Iraq in 2003, which cost hundreds of thousands of lives and trillions of dollars, and a recent term by the Council on Foreign Relations think tank called it the worst foreign policy decision in history. The greedy Trump seems determined to wrest that title for himself with another attempt at regime change in the Middle East.
Bush at least tried to justify his invasion of Iraq, despite the falsity of his claims, and tried to convince the United Nations of his merits. Trump did not bother to do so. He has amassed a huge "fleet" in the Middle East with little explanation to Congress or the American public. In his State of the Union speech last week, Iran did not mention the "State of the Union" until more than an hour after the speech began.
Finally, when the bombs started falling, he tried to make a case in a video he posted on social media. He said the Iranian regime is "an evil group of cruel and horrible people" and that their threatening activities "directly endanger" the United States and its allies. Trump reviewed the history of the U.S. hostage crisis in Iran, the bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut, the attack on the U.S. destroyer Cole, and Iran's role in killing and mutilating U.S. soldiers in Iraq.
"It was mass terrorism, and we will not tolerate it anymore," he said. Trump then referred to pro-Iran groups "that have drowned the earth in blood and shrapnel," citing Hamas's attacks on Israel on Oct. 7, saying, "Iran is the world's number one state sponsor of terrorism, and it recently killed tens of thousands of its citizens in the streets while they were protesting."
Trump stressed the U.S. policy of preventing Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon, ignoring his earlier statement that the June attack The past "destroyed" its nuclear program, claiming that the United States wanted to conclude a deal but Tehran refused.
"They have rejected every opportunity to abandon their nuclear ambitions, and we can no longer afford it," the president said.The president said the United States had launched "a massive and ongoing operation to prevent this evil extremist dictatorship from threatening America and our core national security interests," a signal that Washington may be engaged in a protracted conflict.
The new head of the Peace Council, who will serve for life, promised to "completely destroy their missile industry" and "annihilate their naval fleet."
Then came an unexpected confession: "Brave American heroes may lose their lives, and we may suffer losses. That's what often happens in wars, but we don't do it for now, we do it for the future, and it's a noble mission."
Robin Gallego, a Democratic senator from Arizona and an Iraq War veteran, responded on social media, saying, "A draft dodge, ready to sacrifice working-class people. What a generosity!" Trump then warned members of Iran's Revolutionary Guards against the shooting, saying, "You will be treated fairly and with complete impunity, or you will face inevitable death."
But he kept his most bizarre statement for the end. After warning the Iranian people and telling them to stay at home because "bombs will fall everywhere," he urged them, "When we're done, take over. It will be yours.
This may be your only chance for generations to come." "For many years, you have asked for America's help, but you have never received it. No president has been willing to do what I'm prepared to do tonight. Now you have a boss who gives you what you want. Let's see how your response will be."
After all those years of denouncing neoconservatives, foreign interventions, and regime change, he is calling for the overthrow of the Iranian government. It's as if the ghost of Donald Rumsfeld is smiling at him from his lofts, John Bolton and Lindsey Graham are exchanging congratulations, and Bush is dancing with joy."
What happened, you wonder? Nothing is strange to his personality. Trump, the businessman, has always been a gambler and a reckless, whether it's building casinos in Atlantic City or launching his ill-fated airline. As for Trump, the politician moved the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem, killed Iranian leader Qassem Soleimani, imposed heavy tariffs on trading partners, and arrested Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.
Each time, experts warned of a catastrophe, and each time, the worst didn't happen, Trump felt increasingly emboldened to venture again. (Even his demolition of the East Wing of the White House was an example of "act now, let others ask later.") Iran, however, is a gamble of a very different size, and the president has yet to offer a long-term strategy that goes beyond wishful thinking.
The lesson of Iraq is that regime change is the easy part, but what follows can be hell. However, the man who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize by the real winner Maria Corina Machado – and keep it! – Operation "epic rage" has been dubbed an unprepared world. As Ben Rhodes, Barack Obama's former deputy national security adviser, posted on social media, "Trump's second term was the worst-case scenario."
