Trump Administration cabinet members Bolton and Pompeo seem increasingly spoiling for yet another war in the Middle East - and potentially the worst yet (in terms of regional/global geopolitical consequences) - seemingly, as if for no other 'good' reason, than simply to fulfil their own eschatological view/understanding of endtime events...
This worrisome trend (about which I've written in (recent) times past) got kicked into gear bigtime during the tenure of George W (with his 'neo-cons'), and appears to have now gone into overdrive under his far more contentious (second) successor Donald J Trump...
But let's pause and give 'the Donald' a modicum PLUS of credit, he hasn't and didn't start(ed) a Middle Eastern WW111 - thus far, anyway...but has evidently put the Iranian leadership upon notice that he and his Administration mean business, and won't brook any more funny business from Tehran...
Though surely it'd have been far more worthwhile to have pursued President Obama's nuclear agreement with the Iranians, however fraught and problematic they may well see it to have been. Something was better than nothing, even if all it did was buy some needed time for the world, so that it might once again pull back from the final few minutes upon the Doomsday Clock...
Was DJT's reaction/non-reaction all just a stunt and empty bluster, as per usual? Somehow I doubt it, but (returning to my third para above) it does indeed seem to have been done in order to call the Iranian Administration's bluff...
But tread exceedingly careful, Mr Trump - and (even more so) 'associates' - hornets' nests have been well and truly stirred up over a heckuva lot less. And if you're seeking to take a leaf out of JFK's own (in)famous brinksmanship over the Bay of Pigs/Cuban Missile Crisis, beware what you (inwardly/ secretly) 'wish for', once the genie's out of the bottle it's awfully hard if not impossible to bring it back...
But if you're determined and bloodyminded enough to keep on keeping on courting an all-out war with Iran, methinks you'll eventually secure such...
...with all its horrific consequences, not least of which will be Tehran's all-out assault upon Israel, yes, as long foretold in the sacred scriptures...
But don't expect to earn any brownie points with the One Above for prematurely seeking to bring about His prophecies, it's called presumption/presumptuousness and for such there's never ever been any biblical sanction whatsoever...
This worrisome trend (about which I've written in (recent) times past) got kicked into gear bigtime during the tenure of George W (with his 'neo-cons'), and appears to have now gone into overdrive under his far more contentious (second) successor Donald J Trump...
But let's pause and give 'the Donald' a modicum PLUS of credit, he hasn't and didn't start(ed) a Middle Eastern WW111 - thus far, anyway...but has evidently put the Iranian leadership upon notice that he and his Administration mean business, and won't brook any more funny business from Tehran...
Though surely it'd have been far more worthwhile to have pursued President Obama's nuclear agreement with the Iranians, however fraught and problematic they may well see it to have been. Something was better than nothing, even if all it did was buy some needed time for the world, so that it might once again pull back from the final few minutes upon the Doomsday Clock...
Was DJT's reaction/non-reaction all just a stunt and empty bluster, as per usual? Somehow I doubt it, but (returning to my third para above) it does indeed seem to have been done in order to call the Iranian Administration's bluff...
But tread exceedingly careful, Mr Trump - and (even more so) 'associates' - hornets' nests have been well and truly stirred up over a heckuva lot less. And if you're seeking to take a leaf out of JFK's own (in)famous brinksmanship over the Bay of Pigs/Cuban Missile Crisis, beware what you (inwardly/ secretly) 'wish for', once the genie's out of the bottle it's awfully hard if not impossible to bring it back...
But if you're determined and bloodyminded enough to keep on keeping on courting an all-out war with Iran, methinks you'll eventually secure such...
...with all its horrific consequences, not least of which will be Tehran's all-out assault upon Israel, yes, as long foretold in the sacred scriptures...
But don't expect to earn any brownie points with the One Above for prematurely seeking to bring about His prophecies, it's called presumption/presumptuousness and for such there's never ever been any biblical sanction whatsoever...
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