Sometimes like the rest - if not necessarily the best - 'of us', one impulsively reacts/responds to some newscast/'breaking news' (item) in a way that initially seems 'right'/to gel with one's gut feelings, but which upon further, even reasonably quick reflection, seems not to do real, true justice to the matter at hand. The story continuing to (virtually, singlehandedly) head most world headlines is just such.
And so, though I'll desist from withdrawing my blogpost upon October 8th - in view of my conviction that it does serve to make a salient and rather important point, vis-a-vis the long-demanded withdrawal of American troops from their seeming never-ending engagement and entanglement in foreign 'adventures', particularly of the Middle Eastern variety - can I at least *'add' to that now by giving voice to my, if not sheer disbelief over (in view of the particular 'actor' involved), at the very least my sense of utter disgust and indignation (would not be too strong a term) over President Trump's apparent decision to jettison America's and the free world's staunchest, most loyal and noble Middle Eastern allies (in the global war against Sissii Internationale) as so much unwanted baggage, in the process effectively breaking a solemn covenant with the same...whilst doing so despite only days previously promising virtual Armaggeddon upon Turkey did they dare to intervene in Syria (against the Kurds) and then - but a day or two later - offering additional active military power and assistance to a nearby despotic regime presently engaged - with America's shameful help (though that despite strong and consistent congressional - including, admirably, general Republican Party - opposition) - in itself committing war atrocities upon the little nation of Yemen...while thereby evidently keeping alive his own sordid (in the circumstances) business interests in - yes, you guessed it - the nation of Turkey...
Hey, the length of the foregoing breathless sentence/paragraph perhaps is perfectly understandable in the (seemingly hopeless) attempt to react in any proportionate way or manner to what is presently unfolding in the Middle East...under the auspices of America's 'foreign policy' to boot...
Nuff said for now...
Part Two (to come very soon):
Where I will restate - and pad out/expand upon the above - yet withal in more succinct, bullet-point fashion; to leave no-one reading in no doubt whatsoever as to just why the aforementioned proves beyond any argument whatsoever Trump's absolute unfitness: to hold the office he currently resides in; to wield the authority and power its possession carries in its train; to thus maintain the global jurisdiction which he does nevertheless happen to ipso facto possess...
...for if any single act proved Donald Trump's utter unfitness to remain in the position he does, this would undoubtedly be that act...
...and it's by no means overstating the case to declare that - far from, as CNN's '700 Club' weeknight news programme with **one-time Republican Party presidential hopeful Pat Robertson put things the other night, this one [gross error/mistake/misstep] being akin to the ***'little folly' the great King Solomon lamented in one otherwise accustomed to 'wisdom and honour' - this latest, abjectly contemptible and hideous, awful, treasonous, base, and above all inhuman and inhumane decision effectively and conclusively 'seals the sum'...
...as a rather 'fitting' if exceedingly perverse 'proof' of all the accumulated 'stuff' with which Donald Trump has heretofore been associated, as to why he ought not to ****remain in the position he does...
*As in round out, supplement, fill out in greater, more precise detail...
*In 1988.
***In his own Older Testament book of Ecclesiastes as a matter of fact, 10:1 to be precise.
****Which isn't to say he ought ever to have assumed that office in the first place. Whilst not getting caught up in the seemingly never-ending relitigation of the Muller Inquiry and associated allegations/ accusations about Trump's supposed usurpation of the 2016 Presidential Election - suffice to say that I, much like such respected commentators thereupon as Glenn Greenwald(sp?) and Noam Chomsky, don't happen to believe the case is really all that conclusive - that doesn't mean I likewise consider there to be no minimum standards or threshold for anyone assuming the most powerful position in the world...which, without elaborating any further, let's just say I assume you can 'catch my drift'...
And so, though I'll desist from withdrawing my blogpost upon October 8th - in view of my conviction that it does serve to make a salient and rather important point, vis-a-vis the long-demanded withdrawal of American troops from their seeming never-ending engagement and entanglement in foreign 'adventures', particularly of the Middle Eastern variety - can I at least *'add' to that now by giving voice to my, if not sheer disbelief over (in view of the particular 'actor' involved), at the very least my sense of utter disgust and indignation (would not be too strong a term) over President Trump's apparent decision to jettison America's and the free world's staunchest, most loyal and noble Middle Eastern allies (in the global war against Sissii Internationale) as so much unwanted baggage, in the process effectively breaking a solemn covenant with the same...whilst doing so despite only days previously promising virtual Armaggeddon upon Turkey did they dare to intervene in Syria (against the Kurds) and then - but a day or two later - offering additional active military power and assistance to a nearby despotic regime presently engaged - with America's shameful help (though that despite strong and consistent congressional - including, admirably, general Republican Party - opposition) - in itself committing war atrocities upon the little nation of Yemen...while thereby evidently keeping alive his own sordid (in the circumstances) business interests in - yes, you guessed it - the nation of Turkey...
Hey, the length of the foregoing breathless sentence/paragraph perhaps is perfectly understandable in the (seemingly hopeless) attempt to react in any proportionate way or manner to what is presently unfolding in the Middle East...under the auspices of America's 'foreign policy' to boot...
Nuff said for now...
Part Two (to come very soon):
Where I will restate - and pad out/expand upon the above - yet withal in more succinct, bullet-point fashion; to leave no-one reading in no doubt whatsoever as to just why the aforementioned proves beyond any argument whatsoever Trump's absolute unfitness: to hold the office he currently resides in; to wield the authority and power its possession carries in its train; to thus maintain the global jurisdiction which he does nevertheless happen to ipso facto possess...
...for if any single act proved Donald Trump's utter unfitness to remain in the position he does, this would undoubtedly be that act...
...and it's by no means overstating the case to declare that - far from, as CNN's '700 Club' weeknight news programme with **one-time Republican Party presidential hopeful Pat Robertson put things the other night, this one [gross error/mistake/misstep] being akin to the ***'little folly' the great King Solomon lamented in one otherwise accustomed to 'wisdom and honour' - this latest, abjectly contemptible and hideous, awful, treasonous, base, and above all inhuman and inhumane decision effectively and conclusively 'seals the sum'...
...as a rather 'fitting' if exceedingly perverse 'proof' of all the accumulated 'stuff' with which Donald Trump has heretofore been associated, as to why he ought not to ****remain in the position he does...
*As in round out, supplement, fill out in greater, more precise detail...
*In 1988.
***In his own Older Testament book of Ecclesiastes as a matter of fact, 10:1 to be precise.
****Which isn't to say he ought ever to have assumed that office in the first place. Whilst not getting caught up in the seemingly never-ending relitigation of the Muller Inquiry and associated allegations/ accusations about Trump's supposed usurpation of the 2016 Presidential Election - suffice to say that I, much like such respected commentators thereupon as Glenn Greenwald(sp?) and Noam Chomsky, don't happen to believe the case is really all that conclusive - that doesn't mean I likewise consider there to be no minimum standards or threshold for anyone assuming the most powerful position in the world...which, without elaborating any further, let's just say I assume you can 'catch my drift'...
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