Posted on 01/12/2020 7:33:09 AM PST by American in Israel
The more successful Trump's reality-based policies towards Iran and Israel are, the harder it will be for the foreign policy establishment to restore their delusion-based policies when he leaves power.
For the past 40-odd years, two narratives have guided American Middle East policy. Both were invented by the Carter administration. One relates to Iran. One relates to Israel.
Both narratives reject reality as the basis for foreign policy decision-making in favor of delusion. Over the past two months, President Donald Trump has rejected and disavowed them both. His opponents are apoplectic.
As far as Iran is concerned, as journalist Lee Smith explained in Tablet online magazine this week, when Iranian "students" seized the US Embassy in Tehran in November 1979 and held 52 Americans hostage for 444 days, they placed the Carter administration in a dilemma: If President Jimmy Carter acknowledged that the "students" werent students, but soldiers of Irans dictator Ayatollah Khomeini, the US would be compelled to fight back. And Carter and his advisers didn't want to do that.
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“Given the stakes, we can assume that their attempts to clip Trump’s wings and debase him will increase in intensity, churlishness and irrationality as time goes by and as his successes mount.”
And given the pattern of MSM and Dem meltdown eroding their credibility even further, I dearly hope they keep it up. Probably so does Trump. Bush Derangement Syndrome was a thing to behold, in its time. Trump Derangement Syndrome is Bush Derangement Syndrome to the 10th power. How sweet it is. This is what will save the West. Conservatism, plus driving the Left crazy.
Incidentally, I completely forgot to be furious at the WORST PRESIDENT EVER, Jimmuh the turncoat f@#$ing Carter! It’s like FDR claiming that the Japanese aviation and naval students went on a spree and got a little carried away and bombed Pearl Harbor, then a few military academy cadets got drunk and launched assaults on Guadalcanal and Midway. WTF! They ought to drag that old POS away from his latest Habitat for Humanity project, clap him in irons and haul him off the Leavenworth. Talk about treason.
Hes a Demo rat, treason is what they believe in apparently.
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