Economist also reports what so many other sources also note.  Massive damage created to American facilities all over the Persian Gulf.  In a war that Trump will not admit is being lost.  But then his long history is to lie - long before he even had a TV show.

Drive along Bahrain’s King Khalifa causeway into Manama, the capital, and the war damage to America’s main naval hub in the Gulf is apparent: destroyed communication antennae on one side; blackened buildings on the other. Gashes in high-rise buildings are boarded up.

One would think Americans were intelligent enough to learn lessons from "Saddam's WMD" lies.  When America "Pearl Harbored" Iraq for no purpose.  To only promote the legacy of extremists back then.  Which even justified torture all over the world.  Moderates (a clear minority) back then were loudly shouting reality.  Even about torture in Guantanamo.   Where even JAG lawyers were banned because America had hate of human rights and moral integrity.   Even the Supreme Court refused to protect what once made America great.   About extremists who were even 'sexing it up'.

Three day war has create many major threats even to US safety.  We are not expanding the war just like Hitler did in late 1930s and 40s.  Why is American now any different?

American is moving massive American military strength (including three aircraft carrierr) to conduct an even larger war.    Since Iran is winning.  Now that American military stockpiles are at all time depleted levels.  Wasting it on a country that so many times tried to resort their American friendships.  Deja vue Nam

Many of Iran's military facilities are too deep (in granite) even for bunker busting bombs (that are also in short supply).  The Economist now suggests he may be considering nuclear weapons.  They do not make such published concern lightly.   To attack a nation that was not a threat.  And that was only doing nuclear research because Trump (single handedly) destroyed the entire agreement.  That said Iran would not have and did not want to have nuclear weapons.

Everyone in the world (China, Europe, UN, Russia) all agreed that the Iranian deal was best.  Only an egomaniac (who routinely attacks other nations without provocation) even destroyed that world wide approved settlement.  How many forget that to protect Confirmation Bias.

Everyone who had good things to say about Trump should be apologizing for being as dumb as those Americans who said Saddam had WMDs.  Who gleefully praised the "Mission Accomplished" war.  That not only depleted the Iraqi GDP from which it never recovered.  But also created an American recession.  While enriching the Chinese for loans for a $3 trillion wasted money.

The US current deficit is $24 trillion.  $3 trillion directly traceable to that Saddam lie; believed by the many who do not know how to think.

He has done how much economic damage in only two years?  Most of that damage will appear in four and more years.  He is even running a deficit exceeding 6% GDP.  Debt levels seen during WWII.  Serious debts levels were previously only 3%.  But then most who love a despot always ignore facts with numbers.

We have another two years of economic, military, social, innovation, and government services destruction.   By a despot who says an Attorney General must work for him; not for the nation.  Even ICE operates like storm troopers.  Doing things that are illegal even for cops.  And still the most anti-Americans (people who believe what a despot orders them to believe) love this evil man.

I never thought we would have a president more evil than Nixon.  But then both were only concerned with their legacy.  Promoting themselves.  Any Vietnam veteran should know why they were sent there.  Because Nixon did not want to be the first president in American history to lose a war.   Even Nixon did not try to put his name all over the nation - even the Kennedy Center.  Even Nixon was not that evil.

How much more obvious must reality be before some 40% of the nation finally realizes how dumb they really are?  But then extremists never use the prefrontal cortex to think with.  Adults, who are still children, use their limbic brain.  As if emotions are somehow honest.

The emotional will not reply with facts laced in hard numbers.  Those are only located in a prefrontal cortex.
 

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