Wag the Dog

Linda Silvestri

When a king feels that his people are about to rebel, he declares war on another country.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte

The stupidest man on the planet thinks he’s gonna bring happy regime change to the Middle East? There’d be better odds of a promising, beneficial-to-all success if I, the most baseball illiterate and diplomacy challenged human on the planet, tried to broker peace between coked up Red Sox and Yankee fans.

Seriously, was this really all about Iran rebuilding their nuclear program, developing long range missiles that can now threaten our very good friends and allies in Europe? Mind you, these are the same allies who he and Vance dis on the regular. 

Of course not! All the security analysts and experts on Iran say those claims are either complete bullshit or are molehills made into mountains.

It’s great that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has gone bye bye – 92 million people lived under oppressive, brutal rule for too damn long. What happens now though? What’s the plan?

“Where does this all go?” Jim Himes, the senior Democrat on the House of Representatives’ intelligence committee told NPR. “We can bomb Iran along with the Israelis for, you know, lengthy period of time, but in the service of what?

“Is the intention regime change? Because there aren’t many examples either of regime change affected through bombing, or, quite frankly, of American military forces actually doing regime change in a way that is satisfactory.” (source) 

The U.S. doesn’t exactly have a great history in the regime change business.

Just a few examples:

Cuba (1961): The failed CIA-backed Bay of Pigs invasion. 
South Vietnam (1963): One, two, three, four, what are we fight for? Don’t ask me, I don’t give a damn. Next stop is Vietnam! 
Guatemala (1954): The CIA executed a coup that overthrew the government and installed the first of a line of right-wing dictators, in its place. Gee, aren’t we swell?
Nicaragua (1981–1990): OY! This was Reagan’s complete horror show boondoggle.
Iraq (2003): With the phony baloney claim of weapons of mass destruction we tossed out Saddam Hussein and then what? After nine years of war that left 500,000 to over a million people dead, the country is fragile and divided but better (?) since we’re not there anymore. 

The Iranian Red Crescent Society, a non-governmental humanitarian organization, has said that at least 555 people have been killed by Israel-US attacks across 131 cities since Saturday. So far, four U.S. service members have died.

Once again, a war has been launched by a man without a plan – a man too incredibly stupid to even conceive of the need for one let alone hire a crack, qualified team to come up with one.

For what it's worth, I don't think Prez Pedo jumping us into war in Iran is all about distracting us from his horrifically vile and unbelievably disgusting crimes against children. Nope. Pedo's a chaos demon and a complete attention whore. He has to have all eyes on him, everyone talking about him ALL the time. In order to make that happen, he's got to be starting new fires on the regular. Didn't Pedo send U.S. forces into Venezuala to take out Maduro just two months ago? He struck more than seventy Syrian targets on December 19th. Bombed Nigeria on Christmas Day. Launched 126 operations in Somalia in ‘25, killing nearly two hundred people. The old orange sadist's been a busy steaming load of feces. I'm not even including his Greenland threats. Maybe every new crime is a distraction from the one immediately before.

One thing that's immensely clear – this is not a person who thinks or plans ahead. There is NO game plan.

Fellow humans, we are SO fucked.