There are no more adults in the room.
The New York Times newsroom. This one Michelle?
Posted on 01/07/2020 5:57:40 PM PST by SeekAndFind
There are no more adults in the room.
After three harrowing years, we’ve reached the point many of us feared from the moment Donald Trump was elected. His decision to kill Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani, Iran’s second most important official, made at Mar-a-Lago with little discernible deliberation, has brought the United States to the brink of a devastating new conflict in the Middle East.
We don’t yet know how Iran will retaliate, or whether all-out war will be averted. But already, NATO has suspended its mission training Iraqi forces to fight ISIS. Iraq’s Parliament has voted to expel American troops — a longtime Iranian objective. (On Monday, U.S. forces sent a letter saying they were withdrawing from Iraq in response, only to then claim that it was a draft released in error.)
On Sunday, Iran said it will no longer be bound by the remaining restrictions on its nuclear program in the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, the deal that Trump abandoned in 2018. Trump has been threatening to commit war crimes by destroying Iran’s cultural sites and tried to use Twitter to notify Congress of his intention to respond to any Iranian reprisals with military escalation.
The administration has said that the killing of Suleimani was justified by an imminent threat to American lives, but there is no reason to believe this. One skeptical American official told The New York Times that the new intelligence indicated nothing but “a normal Monday in the Middle East,” and Democrats briefed on it were unconvinced by the administration’s case. The Washington Post reported that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo — who last year agreed with a Christian Broadcasting Network interviewer that God might have sent Trump to save Israel from the “Iranian menace” — has been pushing for a hit on Suleimani
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Lose 50 pounds and tape her mouth uop she might be doable.
If I had three thumbs, I’d give this comment three thumbs WAAAAAAY up! :-)
Put down the crack pipe, Michelle.
You’ve lost it.
Michelle is an idiot.
Or a DNC propagandist.
Sorry for the redundancy.
5.56mm
The NYT quoting democrat politicians is really going to make me rethink my positions...said no one ever.
To paraphrase: “The nightmare stage of Franklin Roosevelt’s rule is here, he taunted and pushed the Japanese to attack our base at Pearl Harbor. He must be removed from office before we embroiled in a costly War with Japan!”
So say the Communist protesters in the streets. The ones who hate America and Israel and shout DEFEND IRAN.
Auntie-Fascists one and all.
Wow. They did not even sound worried after our Embassy in Benghazi was sacked and our ambassador was raped and tortured on live video. They must know that.....this is their end.....cue that Apocalyoae Now scene.....lol.
The nightmare is good people having to tolerate the NYT that praised the efficiency and order achieved by Hitler, suppressed concentration camp reports and now is siding with a murderer of innocents and American troops in a country away from Iran.
Calling him a hero and icon to his reverently mourning Iranian people. BS.
Michelle Goldberg’s hair is on fire.
And obamas 8 years and a boat load of appeasement money for the murder of our men and women in the military
The ‘nightmare’ is only starting for these leftist fifth columnists.
Trump Killed their Friend...
They weave their own nooses ....
They love Obama because he is scared and does not want to have to face any kind of disruption to his pleasures... so he sends in billions to buy his peace with evil...nevermind the rest of the Americans. Fend for yourselves... They are scared and would capitulate before fighting for freedoms...
It’s interesting to see the ones who would do anything to save their way of life as they want it. You can tell who is chicken... Pres Trump is a fighter... that is what saves this nation... don’t appease... don’t do fright... just do what has to be done.. the dems are making fools of themselves .. seeing them all “no war.. at any price no war?
Being a fat pig loser and overall nitwit is no way to go through life .
That fat subhuman slob should be bagged and dropped off in a random, Middle East s**thole.
There are no more adults in the room.
The New York Times newsroom. This one Michelle?
“many of us feared.” Let me guess, she supported Bill Clinton’s wife for president.
Not in the NYC world, there is not. Killing Americans is A-OK with them.
Dear Michelle;
The only thing unstable regarding this brainstorm of yours, was the writer.
So much disinformation, so little time. Where to begin? Thank you for the vast choices available.
Lets go for the title. “The Nightmare Stage of Trump’s Rule Is Here” Yes it is. It’s a time when the extremist leftists and their mouthpieces in the media spin things for an enemy nation that just facilitated the destruction of half of Saudi Arabia’s oil production facilities. They spin the man responsible for hundreds of U. S. Troops death, as some sort of a humanitarian because he’s supposedly fighting ISIS. Perhaps he was, but there are other facts here. One of his groups attacked and killed an innocent American Contractor in country. When we retaliated against that group, our media played it up that we started something. Then Iran’s proxies attacked our embassy. When we then ordered the destruction of the top two military leaders of Iran, in Iraq, the media played it up as the U. S. starting something. It wasn’t. It was the U. S. retaliating for something.
This Iran leader was responsible for crimes against humanity in his own nation. Over 1,500 protesters inside Iran were gunned down recently.
Right now Iran is shooting Iranians that didn’t plan to show enough respect for this man. And why would they? They have friends and family who were gunned down.
The U. N. has so much respect for this guy, that they have sanctioned him and forbidden him to leave Iran. Where was he killed? Iraq!
Odd how many things you left out here, but that is another tactic of propagandists.
“There are no more adults in the room.” Would that be where you writing from, or publishing from? You left that rather vague. Lest you be confused, I know what you mean you child.
This man you are defending, recruited, trained, armed, and sent terrorists into Iraq during the Iraq war. His personal training, these tactics, resulted in 600 or more U. S. Troops being killed, and thousands more being maimed. That’s something else you glossed over. No need to mention that huh...
What harrowing three years? Trump and his administration has been spied on, bugged, lied about, fraudulent documents created and used by the FBI in an abuse of power, the likes of which the nation has never seen before. Two charges of consorting with the enemy investigated and shot down. Nothing this guy has done has been unConstitutional, or a violation of criminal law. The only thing he is guilty of, is fulfilling his Constitutionally mandated job. This you and your cuddly bosom buddies trying to topple this government, have not been able to deal with, despite it being exactly what the President is supposed to do.
Of course you can’t sustain any of this blather, but it was just a “toss aside” slander added in, in an effort to make Trump look universally recognized as a rogue dictator out of control, someone to be terrified of. That is a preposterous premise. You are a liar, a propagandist, a misinformation die hard.
Little discernible deliberation? There is a rich history of what this man has been involved in. He’s been on the radar for several decades. We have known about him and what he has been up the whole time. We also know what he is capable of. Very little forethought? You really don’t know jack about the President’s briefings, or the man you are summarily defending, buy trashing Trump instead of honestly informing your readers why this terrorist mastermind had to go.
Who brought us to the brink of new fighting in the Middle East. That would be the group that killed our contractor, and then tried to occupy our embassy. And when our embassies are occupied, lives are at risk. You grasp that right? So it doesn’t bother you that you are running cover for a terrorist mastermind trying to kill our people?
Well why would it? You folks didn’t give a damn about Ambassador Stevens and his staff. What was the operational retort by Clinton, “What does it matter now anyway?” Well it matters to a hell of a lot of American Citizens, Ms. Numbskull.
Yes, NATO had to cut off their training of these Iranians. Think about that! They are on record playing footsies with this bastard. He’s killing the citizens of a NATO member, and trying to destroy it’s embassy and staff. Imagine how ashamed we should be, airing that into the light of day. Not ashamed at all, but those member of NATA playing along with this guy, and you for trying to run cover for him, both of you have plenty to be ashamed of.
Next you’re off to blaming us for Iran now backing out of an agreement we publicly walked away from in 2018. We knew they were violating that agreement, and that’s why we did. You know it, but you just pump out the bilge anyway. Going on two years later, and you’re intimating we just caused Iran to drop out of an agreement that has been null and void since 2018.
Once again, here you are putting out disinformation to make Iran look better, and to make the U. S. look worse. You folks have no shame, and you think you’re getting away with it. With some people your kind have been hoodwinking for three years, you probably did. Other informed people do see you for what you are.
Trump has not threatened to commit a war crime. That’s your spin through ignorance, or feigned ignorance. The current Islamic Caliphate has been in power since 1979, when James Earl Carter betrayed the Shah of Iran. (and U. S. interests / not to be confused with Trumped up betrayals, it was real) The Caliphate has various high value political sites around Iran. This is what Trump was threatening to take out. It has nothing to do with antiquities. Spin spin spin babe, the truth isn’t going to get you anywhere.
The level of ignorance exhibited in this article is astounding. It’s a flawed premise calculated on a flawed premise, about another flawed premise based on still other false premises. We know what this guy has been involved in for nearly 20 years. Now this woman acts as if hitting our embassy wasn’t the level to indicate impending danger was just ahead.
Then we get to her citing unnamed democaRats and other sources, all with Leftist argument that have been shot down for years, but make perfect sense to her.
As if quoting other Leftists (democRats) was some sort of really valuable asset, when they themselves are running cover for Iran and this man. Iran is a terrorist enabling nation. From what I’ve read, that wasn’t exactly news to Obama either.
Enough already...
Woman, you are a disgrace to the vague memory of what journalism was supposed to be.
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